On February 21, 2009, in New York, New York, the Postal Service issued a 42-cent, Civil Rights Pioneers commemorative stamp in six designs in a pressure-sensitive (PSA) souvenir sheet of six stamps (Item 573900). The stamp was designed by Greg Berger of Bethesda, Maryland. With these stamps, the U.S. Postal Service honors 12 leaders of the struggle for African-American civil rights. These visionary men and women energized a movement that spanned generations. Art director Ethel Kessler and stamp designer Greg Berger, both of Bethesda, Maryland, chose to approach this project through photographic montage. Paring two pioneers on each stamp was a way of intensifying the montage effect. Featured are: Mary Church Terrell, Mary White Ovington, J.R. Clifford, Joel Elias Spingarn, Oswald Garrison Villard, Daisy Gatson Bates, Charles Hamilton Houson, Walter White, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, Ruby Hurley