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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.
Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.
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
Alcorn State University was the first black land grant college in the country. Mississippi's Reconstructionist legislature, dominated by Republicans sympathetic to the cause of educating the formerly enslaved, was established on the site of Oakland College, a college that had gone defunct due to the Civil War. [9]
1872 Currier and Ives print showing the first Black U.S. 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), 1872. The following is a list of Black Republicans, past and present. This list is limited ...
For generations preceding Hiram's, the number and type of free people in the household were also documented. For example, are you free-colored? Free other? What kind of free person are you? These data are included in the public record. Experts my rear end. The public record is the only expert you need. I know the names of Hiram Rhodes Revels's ...
For example, the first known African-American school in St. Louis, Missouri was a subscription school that future Senator Hiram Revels established in 1856. [5] In North Carolina, the first school serving the Lumbee tribe was a subscription school established in 1870. [6]
In United States history, scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) was a pejorative slur referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War. As with the term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan