MIT Celebrates Stamp Honoring Its First Black Graduate

CAMBRIDGE, MA - MAY 13: The United States Postal Service's Robert Robinson Taylor stamp is unveiled by Left to right, Cambridge City Councillor Denise Simmons, Edward Bertschinger, Community and Equity Officer of MIT, and Cambridge postmaster Katherine Lydon, at MIT's Stratton Student Center in Cambridge, Mass. May 13, 2015. Taylor, an architect, was the first African-American to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Note the stamp, which is part of the postal service's Black Heritage Stamp Series, released earlier this year.) (Photo by John Blanding/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)