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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.
In 1841, a Female Seminary was built. The building burned down in 1843, but the college continued to provide classes for women, first in co-ed preparatory classes, then, by 1850, in the Female Collegiate Department. In 1857, a new 5-story Female Seminary building was constructed which accommodated up to ninety women.
First African American to graduate from Harvard College: Richard Theodore Greener. [62] First African-American elected to the U.S. Senate, and first to serve in the U.S. Congress: Hiram Rhodes Revels (R–MS). [63] [Note 4] First African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives: Joseph Rainey (R-SC). [64] [Note 5]
First African-American senator from Mississippi: Hiram R. Revels (also first in U.S.) First African-American acting governor: Oscar James Dunn of Louisiana from May until August 9, 1871, when sitting Governor Warmoth was incapacitated and chose to recuperate in Mississippi. (see also: Douglas Wilder, 1990) 1872
Haney takes over just a few months before Hiram College celebrates its 175 birthday in 2025. “We are delighted to have Dr. Bohrer serve as Hiram’s president,” said Robert Turner, chair of ...
It also includes the papers of Lawrence Brown (1893–1973), [69] Melva L. Price, [70] Ralph Bunche, Léon Damas, William Pickens, [71] Hiram Rhodes Revels, Clarence Cameron White. [72] The collection also includes manuscripts of Alexander Crummell [ 73 ] and John Edward Bruce , manuscripts of Slavery , Abolitionism and on the West Indies , and ...
Resurrection College Prep High School is a private, Catholic, all-girls high school in Chicago, Illinois. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.
As a modernizer, he appointed many like-minded former Whigs, some since Democrats. He strongly supported public schools for all and a new college exclusively for blacks, now known as Alcorn State University. He maneuvered to make his ally, Hiram Revels, the institution's president. Irritated at his patronage policy, many Republicans opposed Alcorn.