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Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 [note 1] – January 16, 1901) was an American Republican politician, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War.
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first black member of the Senate (see African Americans in the United States Congress). [citation needed] Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded. [citation needed] First two Enforcement Acts. [citation needed] 1871
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American ever elected to the U.S. Senate. He represented the state of Mississippi from February 1870 to March 1871. He represented the state of ...
January 25, 1870, letter from the governor and secretary of state of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the Senate. First black senator and representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
Hiram Rhodes Revels was sworn in as the first Black U.S. senator in 1870. Guion Bluford became the first Black person in space in 1983, and would spend 688 hours there over the course of his ...
Mississippian Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be elected as a U.S. Senator and become a member of Congress. [2] In Georgia, Foster Blodgett was elected and presented his credentials as Senator-elect, but the Senate declared him not elected.
I’ll never forget a student’s response when I asked during a middle school social studies class what they knew about black history: “Martin Luther King freed the slaves.”Martin Luther King ...
First African-American Democratic U.S. senator to represent a former Confederate state in the United States Senate: Raphael Warnock, elected in Georgia. [353] [354] [355] First African-American United States Secretary of Defense: Lloyd Austin [356] First full-time female African-American NFL coach: Jennifer King (Washington Commanders). [357]