Monday Trivia No. 15

Gracie Allen, Steve Allen, Fran Allison, Ella Baker, Daisy Bates, Milton Berle, William Boyd, Louis Brandeis, William Brennan Jr., George Burns, Raymond Burr, Art Carney, J. R. Clifford, Anna Julia Cooper, Gary Cooper, Medgar Evers, Felix Frankfurter, Jackie Gleason, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Hope, Charles Hamilton Houston, Ruby Hurley, Mary Lasker, Groucho Marx, Clayton Moore, Harriet Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Mary White Ovington, Rod Serling, Dinah Shore, Phil Silvers, Red Skelton, Joel Elias Spingarn, Joseph Story, Ed Sullivan, William Talman, Mary Church Terrell, Vivian Vance, Oswald Garrison Villard, Jack Webb, and Walter Francis White were all honored posthumously in 2009. How?

(This is an exhaustive list.)

Burt Likko

Pseudonymous Portlander. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering litigator. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Recovering Former Editor-in-Chief of Ordinary Times. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.

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    • The Original Three Tenors: Medgar Evers, Felix Frankfurter, and Jack Webb. Now, re-mastered and brought to you together in this beautiful gift set. Call now, operators are standing by.

      Not quite.

  1. Just a guess. They all were memorialized on USA postage stamps.

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