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February 29,2012
Letter Carriers Celebrate
took a group picture in front of the Martin
Luther King statute in front of the Oregon
Convention Center at 777 N.E. Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd. It was the first
gathering of local African-American
letter carriers, with plans to make Black
History Month an annual celebration
for the group.
The earliest known black American
On Sunday, a group of Letter
Carriers from the
Portland area came
together to c e l­
ebrate Black His­
tory Month.
The postal
employees had
a
potluck
brunch and
in postal history was William H. Carney, a
letter carrier in New Bedford, Mass, from
1869 to 1901.
Carney was also the first African Ameri­
can to earn the Congressional Medal of
Honor. He was awarded the medal for the
bravery he displayed in the Civil War as a
soldier in Company C of the 54th Massachu­
setts Colored Infantry.
William H. Carney
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photo by A ntonio
H arris
Portland area Postal workers gather to celebrate Black History Month. Pictured (from left) are Malette Howard, Angela Leary, Tesfay Wubneh, Yemere Kifkzghi, Sammy
R. Smith, Jefferson Gachet, Isham Harris, Fred Wilkins, Christopher Chretien, Stan Lambart, Gregory Green, Kevin Bryant, and Theodore Henderson.
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