U.S. Postal Service issues Gandhi stamp

 

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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