Postal service issues special Rosa Parks stamp
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDERBy MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press?
?Councilwoman Joann Watson, from left, Lloyd Wesley, Jr., Detroit postmaster, Elaine Eason Steele, co-founder of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, and Sen. Carl Levin applaud at the unveiling of the Rosa Parks? 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp at the Museum of African American History in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The Rosa Parks Forever Stamp went on sale Monday and was part of a series of events scheduled throughout the day to honor her. AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, HUFFINGTON POST OUT
Councilwoman Joann Watson, from left, Lloyd Wesley, Jr., Detroit postmaster, Elaine Eason Steele, co-founder of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, and Sen. Carl Levin applaud at the unveiling of the Rosa Parks? 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp at the Museum of African American History in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The Rosa Parks Forever Stamp went on sale Monday and was part of a series of events scheduled throughout the day to honor her. AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, HUFFINGTON POST OUT
Bonnie Price of Detroit displays her stamps at the unveiling of the Rosa Parks' 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp at the Museum of African American History in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The Rosa Parks Forever Stamp went on sale Monday and was part of a series of events scheduled throughout the day to honor her. AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, HUFFINGTON POST OUT
People line up for stamps at the unveiling of the Rosa Parks? 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp at the Museum of African American History in Detroit on Monday,Feb. 4, 2013, at the unveiling of the Rosa Parks? 100th birthday commemorative postage stamp at the Museum of African American History in Detroit on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The Rosa Parks Forever Stamp went on sale Monday and was part of a series of events scheduled throughout the day to honor her. AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT, HUFFINGTON POST OUT
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) ? The U.S. Postal Service has issued a Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday.
The Rosa Parks Forever Stamp went on sale Monday, and an oversized version was unveiled during the National Day of Courage celebration at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn.
The stamp bears an artist's rendering of a 1950s-era photo of Parks.
Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stroman described Parks as being "the epitome of courage."
Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man, an act that helped bring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to prominence.
Stroman and others later took a seat on the Rosa Parks bus, which is on permanent display inside the museum.
Associated Press
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