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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]
February 25 – Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first black member of the Senate (see African Americans in the United States Congress). Christian Methodist Episcopal Church founded. First two Enforcement Acts. 1871. October 10 – Octavius Catto, a civil rights activist, is murdered during harassment of blacks on Election Day in Philadelphia.
Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate. Granderson: The Senate's only Black Republican now loves Trump. It's not a ...
Horace R. Cayton Jr. was born April 12, 1903, in Seattle, Washington, to newspaper publisher Horace R. Cayton, Sr. and Susie Revels.His mother was the daughter of Hiram Rhodes Revels, the first black American elected to the United States Senate.
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]
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
"Hiram Kasten loved show business and lived his dream of being in show business," the family said in a statement announcing his death. Kasten's cause of death was not disclosed but the family said ...