On this day in US history (7 April 1940), the 10-cent Booker T. Washington stamp was released as part of the "Famous Americans" series - the first to feature a Black American. To find out more about Washington, see this ANCH article:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article examines black thought and black ideas about racial consciousness after Reconstruction in order to rethink the way African American leaders conceived the relationship between work and ...