Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt Lyndon Johnson 16. In 1978, the U.S. Postal Service began its popular Black Heritage stamp series. Dr. Martin Luther King Benjamin Banneker Harriet Tubman 17. The 1990 Classic Films stamp series was very popular. The Wizard of Oz Citizen Kane 18.
Stamps celebrating the Olympics continue to be popular with the American public.
The first U.S. stamp to honor the Olympics was issued for the 3rd Winter Games. Chamonix, France Lake Placid, New York Squaw Valley, California 19. Individual American sports heroes did not find their way onto U.S. stamps until 1981. Babe Zaharias and Bobby Jones Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Knute Rockne and Francis Oulmet 20. You are not paying much attention to stamps.