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Black males in the Northern states could vote, but the majority of African Americans lived in the South. [17] [18] Women in Utah get the right to vote. [23] 1875. Minor v. Happersett goes to the Supreme Court, where it is decided that suffrage is not a right of citizenship and women do not necessarily have the right to vote. [24] 1876
Party Division in the Senate, 1789-Present, via Senate.gov; The New York Civil List compiled in 1858 (see: pg. 113 for State Senators 1788–89; pg. 114 for State Senators 1789–90; page 164 for Members of Assembly 1788–89; pg. 165 for Members of Assembly 1789–90) The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790.
After Congress passed the First Military Reconstruction Act of 1867 and ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870, African Americans began to be elected or appointed to national, state, county and local offices throughout the United States. [1] Four of the five office holders served in a New England state.
Nevertheless, many African Americans served in its legislature and Mississippi was the only state that elected African American candidates to the U.S. Senate during the Reconstruction era; a total of 37 African Americans served in the Senate and 117 served in the House. [59] [60]
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.
“It was only when the Democratic Party took up the mantle of civil rights in the mid to late 1960s that Black support for the Party coalesced into the reliable Democratic voting bloc we know ...
Blacks' regaining the power to vote changed the political landscape of the South. When Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, only about 100 African Americans held elective office, all in northern states. By 1989, there were more than 7,200 African Americans in office, including more than 4,800 in the South.
The two special Senate runoff elections that allowed Democrats to ... first Senate chaplain in 1789. Today the nonsectarian, nonpartisan Office of the Chaplain is headed by Barry C. Black, whose ...