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US MNH SINGLES!! four DIFFERENT 37cts WOMEN IN JOURNALISM 37ct stamps Yr 2001 #3665-68 $8 CATALOG VALUE
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In 2002, the USPS paid tribute to four accomplished women in journalism with this pane of twenty stamps.
Each woman journalist is honored on a postage stamp for the first time:
Ethel L. Payne (1911-91) was known as the "First Lady of the Black Press." A tough investigative reporter,
Marguerite Higgins (1920-66) won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the first awarded to a woman,
Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944) revealed the illegal methods John D. Rockefeller used to monopolize the early oil industry,
Nellie Bly (1867-1922) pioneered as an undercover reporter with daring exposes about the poor and the poorly treated.