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U.S. Postal Service issues Gandhi stamp
Compiled by Sindya N. Bhanoo 
January 2016
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
January 26, 1961
– The United States Postal
Service issues 120 million
4 cent stamps and 40
million 8 cent stamps
honoring Mahatma
Gandhi in the “Champions
of Liberty” series.
The US was the second country in the world to issue a stamp honoring Mahatma Gandhi after India.
Sindya N. Bhanoo writes the Observatory column in the Science section of The New York Times. She is also a board member of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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