37c Marguerite Higgins stamp

Marguerite Higgins (1920-1966) is one of the most accomplished female war correspondents from the mid twentieth century. During World War II she covered the liberation of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps while working for the New York Herald Tribune. She then went on to become the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1951 for her coverage of the Korean War and continued as a reporter during the Vietnam War.

Women in Journalism issue commemorative stamp, 2002

Scott Catalogue USA: 3668
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Museum ID: 2002.2029.183