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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.
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.
Mississippian Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to be elected as a U.S. Senator and become a member of Congress. [2] In Georgia, Foster Blodgett was elected and presented his credentials as Senator-elect, but the Senate declared him not elected.
Hiram Rhodes Revels was sworn in as the first Black U.S. senator in 1870. Guion Bluford became the first Black person in space in 1983, and would spend 688 hours there over the course of his ...
Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American to serve in the United States Senate, representing Mississippi from 1870 to 1871. Calvin H. Sydnor III, the 20th Editor of The Christian Recorder, the official newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (www.the-Christian-recorder.org)
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 ...
Hiram Rhodes Revels – Mississippi 1870 (also Mississippi Secretary of State) [2] U.S. House of Representatives Richard H. Cain – South Carolina 1873–1875, 1877 ...
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