October 2018 Activities – Movie Viewing

October is National Stamp Collecting Month and National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As part of our Stamp Out Violence Initiative we are collecting new socks to donate to a local shelter. Also, stamps are being collected to be used in a kids stamp art project. If you would like to donate, please send to NMAAS, P. O. Box 303, Edwardsville,

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Events and Activities Coming Up – August and September 2018

In the month of August we will be celebrating our 1 year Anniversary at the 40th Anniversary Conference for the Association of African American Museums. One of the events will be hosted at the  Hampton University Museum that is celebrating 150 years. We are honored to be a traveling scholarship recipient and a social media ambassador.        

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Miles Davis Festival – HouseofMilesEStL

We had a really nice time with Lauren Parks and the HouseofMilesEStL organizers at their Miles Davis Festival.  Mykael Ash is an awesome young artist that had several pieces on display in honor of Miles Davis. This painting was a great complement to our display.  To get more information about the House of Miles visit www.houseofmilesestl.org.  This is the childhood

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HouseofMilesEStL – Miles Davis

June 9 is the new date and we are ready with a special tribute exhibit/display to honor Miles Davis. We will be celebrating the Miles Davis Festival at his childhood home with a display in his honor.  We are so proud to be a part of this event and will also exhibit other musicians on stamps. Read this article by

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Teaching black history through stamp collecting

Sharing an article that we had the honor to be featured in: *********** Charlene Blair uses her stamp collection to teach black history at Laclede Elementary School in St. Louis. Photo by: Elisa Tomich  Teaching black history through stamp collecting By Elisa Tomich, Wells Fargo Advisors communications consultant Twenty-six years ago, Charlene Blair, a Wells Fargo executive assistant, stumbled upon

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MLK Bell Toll Commemoration

We had an opportunity to participate in the MLK50 Bell Toll by joining others at the Missouri History Museum.  We were featured on their Facebook Live feed and interviewed by a reporter, Nassim Benchaabane, from the St. Louis Post Dispatch.  He wrote:  Charlene Blair, 55, stood listening to Nance’s words while holding a framed picture of the ceremonial U.S. Postal Stamp bearing

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Black History Issues – Dragon Cards

Stamp collecting can be enhanced by collecting first day covers, souvenir pages, posters, key chains, coasters and other items with stamps on them. Dragon cards by Lloyd de Vries have been nice additions to many collectors.  Look at the Ralph Ellison below. Black History Dragon Cards  

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Dorothy Height Stamp

The Dorothy Height is still available at the USPS online.  “Height is the 40th addition to the Black Heritage Series which features other African American pioneers and activists including Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr. She is also the 15th woman to be added to the series.” See more info at NBCNEWS This is a dragon

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Radio Promos, Voices and Perspectives

One of the goals of the National Museum of African Americans on Stamps is to be a catalyst for courageous conversations. To support this effort we will have 30 second promos on WSIE 88.7 The Sound. http://www.siue.edu/wsie/ or http://streaming.siue.edu:8000/wsie We will appear in the hour before and after “Voices,” an hour-long radio-news magazine hosted by St. Louis radio personality Hank Thompson, that airs

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