Ebony founder being honored with black heritage stamp
Associated Press January 30, 2012 10:08AM
U.S. Post Office issues stamp honoring John H. Johnson, publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines.
Updated: March 1, 2012 8:43AM
The U.S Postal Service’s black heritage stamp this year honors publisher John H. Johnson, who created Ebony and Jet magazines. A ceremony is planned Tuesday in Johnson’s hometown of Arkansas City, Ark., where he lived until moving to Chicago with his family at age 15.
Johnson created Ebony in 1945 with a press run of 25,000 copies. At the time of his death in 2005, at age 87, its circulation topped 1.6 million. He founded Jet in 1951.
The stamp, featuring a photo of Johnson shot by photographer David McCann, goes on sale Tuesday. Past honorees include U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan, singer Ella Fitzgerald, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, poet Langston Hughes and baseball player Jackie Robinson.
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