USPS. First Day of Issue Ceremony Program for the dedication of Scott #1233 5c Emancipation Proclamation Centennial commemorative stamp, FDOI, August 16, 1963, Chicago, Illinois.  Ceremony was held in conjunction with A Century of Negro Progress Exposition. "Georg Olden ...was commissioned to design the stamp... Mr. Olden, who is a vice-president of the advertising firm of McCann-Erickson, is the first Negro to design an American postage stamp."  Program measures 5 1/4" x 8". This listing does NOT include the "Slavery to Freedom hist. insert" mentioned in Mellone's.