First African American in the US Senate

The first Black U.S. senator lived an extraordinary life

Hiram Revels subverted slave states and recruited soldiers in the Civil War. In the 150 years since he took office, he remains one of only ...

Hiram Rhodes Revels: First African American U.S. Senator

During his Senate career, Hiram Revels opposed segregation, promoted civil rights, and supported amnesty for former confederate soldiers. But ...

“The First Colored Senator and Representatives in the 41st and ...

This 1872 portrait print published in New York by Currier and Ives depicts a group portrait of the first African-American legislators in the history of the ...

First African-American senator in late 1800s represented Mississippi

He was the first African-American in the U.S. Congress as well. To date, only six African-Americans have served in the United States Senate, ...

Black Americans in Congress - GovInfo

Rainey of South Carolina became the first African American elected to the U.S.. House of Representatives; John Lewis of Georgia was a civil rights leader and ...

Kids in the House - Middle School - Black Americans in Congress

The first African-American Member of Congress was elected nearly 100 years after the United States became a nation. Slavery had only been illegal for five ...

Black Congressional Member Biographies » Origins of the ...

In February 1870, Hiram Revels became the first Black American to serve in Congress when he filled the seat of former Mississippi senator and Confederate ...

There Have Been Just Twelve African-American U.S. Senators

#1 Hiram Rhodes Revels First African American to Serve in Congress (R- Mississippi, February 1870 - March 1871) ... The first African American to ...

History of Black Women in the U.S. Senate | Gender on the Ballot

Moseley Braun represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999, becoming the first Black woman Senator in the country's history.

Blanche Kelso Bruce House (U.S. National Park Service)

Republican Blanche Kelso Bruce was the first African American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate. He was also the only former slave to ...

General Information

Tennessee has sent only two African Americans to the United States Congress: Harold ... The first African American member of the U.S. Senate was Hiram Revels from.

Here's Every Black U.S. Senator In American History - NewsOne

Tim Scott in 2013 became the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a southern state in the Senate. The Republican was ...

Warnock will make history as Georgia's first Black senator - CNN

More than 80 years later, Edward Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts, would be the first African American elected to the US Senate by ...

The Senate of the United States [First African American in the U.S. ...

The Senate of the United States [First African American in the U.S. Senate] ; Genre. Clippings ; Date Issued. 1871-02-11 ; Division. Schomburg Center for Research ...

The First Colored Senator and Representatives, Currier & Ives ...

Educated African-Americans provided leadership for freed slaves. In 1870, Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first black member to serve ...

P.B.S. Pinchback. The Black Governor Who Almost Was a Senator

And with former slaves and free blacks being a fledgling but still strong voting presence in the deepest parts of the South, Mississippi sent its second black ...

Black Leaders of Reconstruction: Era & Hiram Revels | HISTORY

Hiram Revels, the first Black elected to the U.S. Senate (he took the Senate seat from Mississippi that had been vacated by Jefferson Davis in ...

First African-American Senator Elected in US South Since Civil War ...

Tim Scott, 49, was expected to easily win the historic vote after having been appointed un-elected to the post in 2012 when the previous senator ...

Here's how the number of Black Americans in Congress has tripled ...

The current meeting of Congress is one of the most racially diverse in history. There are 62 Black members of the current Congress, the most ...

Early African-American Senators | TSLAC

Matt Gaines in debate on the Senate floor. Walter Burton Image: Walter Burton. Walter Burton was born a slave in North Carolina in 1829. Burton ...