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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.
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...
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]
In the midst of cries for independence from British rule, many pointed out the hypocrisy inherent in colonial slaveholders' demands for freedom. The Declaration of Independence , a document which would become a manifesto for human rights and personal freedom around the world, was written by Thomas Jefferson , a man who owned over 200 enslaved ...
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.
As the Civil War was ending, the major issues facing President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to prevent a future civil war, and the question of whether Congress or the President would make the major decisions.
Sidney Revels Redmond was born on July 23, 1902, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Black parents Ida Alcorn Revels and Sidney Dillon Redmond. His maternal grandfather was politician Hiram R. Revels. [5] [6] He attended Harvard University for undergrad economics, [7] followed by attendance at Harvard Law School. [5] [8]
John F. Lewis (R) January 26, 1870 Virginia (2) John W. Johnston (D) Mississippi (1) Vacant Mississippi re-admitted to the Union Adelbert Ames (R) February 23, 1870 Mississippi (2) Hiram R Revels (R) Texas (1) Vacant Texas re-admitted to the Union James W. Flanagan (R) March 30, 1870 Texas (2) Morgan C. Hamilton (R) March 31, 1870 Georgia (3 ...