{"id":227,"date":"2016-01-23T20:31:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:36:00","slug":"politics-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-3\/","title":{"rendered":"..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The stamps of the Democratic Republic of Congo reflect the political upheaval that resulted from decolonization.<\/strong> In 1960, the Republic of the Congo was established after independence from Belgium. The first stamp of the new Republic celebrates this sovereignty. That same year the provinces of Katanga and South Kasai seceded and began producing their own stamps, first overprints of Congo stamps followed by new stamps in 1961. These breakaway movements were reintegrated in 1963. In 1965, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobutu_Sese_Seko\">Joseph-Desir\u00e9 Mobutu<\/a> seized control of the Republic, eventually renaming it Zaire <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and putting his portrait on the stamps.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx027_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-379\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx027_1md-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx027_1md\" width=\"635\" height=\"761\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Belgian Congo<\/strong>, 1943 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx028_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-380\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/StampEx028_1md-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"StampEx028_1md\" width=\"635\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Republic of the Congo<\/strong>, 1960 \u00a0 | \u00a0 Overprinted postage stamp \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-376\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1960-Scott360md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-376\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1960-Scott360md-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Congo-1960-Scott360md\" width=\"635\" height=\"513\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Republic of the Congo<\/strong>, 1960 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-377\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1961-Scottxxx_02md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-377\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1961-Scottxxx_02md-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"Congo-1961-Scottxxx_02md\" width=\"635\" height=\"856\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Katanga<\/strong>, 1961 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-378\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1961-Scottxxx_07md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-378\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Congo-1961-Scottxxx_07md-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"Congo-1961-Scottxxx_07md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1723\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>South Kasai<\/strong>, 1961 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>George S. Champlin Memorial Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_375\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-375\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Zaire-1972-Scott761md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-375\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/01\/Zaire-1972-Scott761md-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zaire-1972-Scott761md\" width=\"635\" height=\"1631\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Republic of Zaire<\/strong>, 1972 \u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0<em>Robert T. Galkin Collection<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stamps of the Democratic Republic of Congo reflect the political upheaval that resulted from decolonization. In 1960, the Republic of the Congo was established after independence from Belgium. The first stamp of the new Republic celebrates this sovereignty. That same year the provinces of Katanga and South Kasai seceded and began producing their own <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/exhibit\/politics\/politics-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/1028"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/stamps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}