Sunday Stamps: the Letter "W"

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is a cooler morning in the American Midwest - perhaps the heat dome has left us.

It's time for Sunday Stamps.  We are up to the letter W.

I have a stamp from the US Postal Service, honoring Phillis Wheatley, an early enslaved African poet.

Captured in West Africa as a child, she was taken to Boston and sold to the Wheatley family.  They educated her.  They encouraged her writing.  A book of her poems was published in London England in 1773 and brought her some fame.  The Wheatleys emancipated her soon after publication of her book.

More at her Wikipedia entry.

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Sunday Stamps: the letter "X"

 Good day, and welcome to a cold cloudy day in the American Midwest.

X is a hard letter to find any words or stamps, but my colleagues have done well (check out SeeitonaPostcard).

I have an USA stamp for today though - not in hand; the image is from a stamp dealer.

Malcolm X was an American civil rights leader, active until his assassination in 1965.  His Wikipedia entry is HERE. There is a Malcolm X day, celebrated in Berkeley CA May 19 - his birthday.  I did not know this.

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