Bayard Rustin Stamp Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7441 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7441 To direct the Postmaster General to issue a forever stamp depicting Bayard Rustin, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 9, 2026 Ms. Norton (for herself and Mr. Torres of New York) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Postmaster General to issue a forever stamp depicting Bayard Rustin, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Bayard Rustin Stamp Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Bayard Rustin was born on March 17, 1912, and was raised by his grandparents in West Chester, Pennsylvania. From a young age, Rustin learned to prioritize the values of nonviolence and peacekeeping from his grandparents' Quaker faith, and would continue to build these values in his life as a civil rights movement leader. (2) Rustin attended City College of New York, where he joined a progressive club that aimed to remedy racial issues during turbulent times. His time with the club was short lived, but it inspired him to join the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an organization that became a champion for labor rights, equality, and world peace. (3) His time with the Fellowship of Reconciliation prompted Rustin to become a leader in the 1947 ``Journey to Reconciliation'', an event where White and Black people across the South rode buses together to challenge segregation laws, a precursor to the Freedom Rides. (4) Rustin was an advisor in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s inner circle as he advocated pacifism and nonviolen