Jackson Davis V, a 12-year-old boy with an adventurous spirit
and inquisitive mind is running a campaign to post the face of
York, Lewis and Clark’s African-American enslaved manservant, on
a postage stamp. In February of 2011, Davis’s class at Lowell
Elementary School was assigned to do a report on the Lewis and
Clark expedition. Jackson Davis says that Lowell Elementary
School teaches him to “Think outside the box and got me into
writing letters and to do extraordinary things.” While
researching the duo, Davis discovered that William Clark had a
slave named York. During a trip to the post office, Davis found
numerous stamps of historic African-American figures, yet York
was not amongst them. He didn’t understand why Lewis and Clark
were on a stamp, and their Native American guide Sacagawea had a
coin, but York did not get any recognition. “Stamps are the most
visible things out there. What better way to honor someone than
to put their face on a stamp?” said Davis. Jackson’s mother, Cyn
Davis says this is he