The listing, US MNH Plate Blk of FOUR 37cts WOMEN IN JOURNALISM 37ct stamps Yr 2001 has ended.
US MNH Plate Blk of four 37cts WOMEN IN JOURNALISM 37ct stamps Yr 2001\
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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.