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Revels's Senate term lasted a little over one year, from February 25, 1870, to March 3, 1871. He quietly and persistently, although for the most part unsuccessfully, worked for equality. He spoke against an amendment proposed by Senator Allen G. Thurman (D-Ohio) to keep the schools of Washington, D.C., segregated and argued for their ...
The first two African-American senators represented the state of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, following the American Civil War. Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first African American to serve in the Senate, was elected in 1870 [5] by the Mississippi State Legislature to succeed Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War.
On February 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was seated as the first black member of the Senate, while Blanche Bruce, also of Mississippi, seated in 1875, was the second. Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. [11] Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South.
P. B. S. Pinchback – Louisiana 1873, elected but the Senate refused to seat him (also Louisiana Lt. Governor, Louisiana Senate, acting Louisiana Governor, Louisiana Constitutional Convention) [2] Hiram Rhodes Revels – Mississippi 1870 (also Mississippi Secretary of State) [2]
He served South Carolina's 1st congressional district beginning in 1870 during the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War. The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement .
February 25, 1870: Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American in the U.S. Congress; ... Senate Journal, First Forty-three Sessions of Congress;
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus will be wearing black pins with the number “1870” on them, which marks the year of the first known police killing of an unarmed and free Black person ...
first African-American men elected to the Virginia Senate: James W. D. Bland, Isaiah L. Lyons, William P. Moseley, Frank Moss, John Robinson, and George Teamoh (1869) [19] [20] first African-American man elected to the Virginia House of Delegates since Reconstruction : William Ferguson Reid (1968)