This post continues the series on U.S. postage stamps related to Alabama.
The previous three posts can be found here, here and here.
More about U.S. stamps and postal history can be found here.
Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan were featured on this stamp, issued June 27, 1980.
Helen Keller has also been featured on stamps around the world. Below are ones from Liberia, Spain, Nicaragua, Japan and India.
This stamp was issued to honor the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird's publication.
Issued June 29, 1995. Semmes was both a Confederate rear admiral and brigadier general best known as captain of the CSS Alabama raider.
Issued July 25, 1977, in honor of the storied coach's career
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