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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.
Born in 1907 to Susie Revels Cayton and Horace Cayton, Sr., Cayton was a civil rights leader in Seattle and California. [1] [2] His grandfather was Hiram R. Revels, the first black senator in the United States. [3] Cayton was forced to seek employment at age 15 as a telephone operator due to a series of unfortunate financial events. [4]
Susie Sumner Revels was born in Mississippi on January 1, 1870, the same year her father, Hiram Revels, became the first African-American United States senator in US history. [1] Revels' middle name "Sumner" was a tribute to Charles Sumner , [ 2 ] Hiram Revels' friend, who was sworn in as the Massachusetts senator the year Susie was born. [ 3 ]
Hiram R. Revels (father in-law) Sidney Dillon Redmond (October 11, 1871 – February 11, 1948) was an American civic leader, physician, lawyer, and politician from Jackson, Mississippi. [ 1 ] He was an important African American community leader and headed the Mississippi Republican Party as part of the " black-and-tan " faction.
Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress.
Sidney Revels Redmond (1902–1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and civil right activist. He was the chief council for Lloyd L. Gaines in Gaines v. Canada (1938). [1] [2] [3] He served as the president of the National Bar Association in 1939, he worked as an NAACP lawyer, and was a past president of the local NAACP from 1938 to 1944.
John Sinclair Leary (August 17, 1845 – December 9, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, federal official, and law school dean. He was of mixed ethnicity. He is described as one of the first black lawyers in North Carolina and was a member of the state legislature from 1868 to 1870.
More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction. [1] Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states, such as Florida, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877.