African Americans in the United States Congress
First African American in the US Senate | Today in History - YouTube
Today marks a special anniversary for Congress that deserves celebration.
Black Women in Elective Office
Federal Elective Executive · Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) was the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from ...
28 states have a Black representative in Congress - Axios
Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.) became the first Black member of Congress to represent her state after being elected in 2020. Mississippi, Georgia ...
Cory Booker and the First Black Senators | The African Americans
Hiram Revels, the first black senator in Congress, paved the way for men like Cory Booker to serve.
Congress and Legislation - African American Documents
Executive Order 9981 stated that "there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed forces without regard to ...
America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
In 1868, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment, ensuring citizenship to any person born in the United States. Today, thanks to this amendment, ...
LLBC - Louisiana House of Representatives
Jetson was elected as the Black Caucus' seventh chairman. In 1997, Sen. John Guidry was elected as judge, thereby creating a vacancy in the Senate. Former U.S. ...
African American Voting Rights - Library of Congress
A major goal of the civil rights movement of the twentieth century was to resecure and protect full voting rights for all Black citizens.
The First Colored Senator and Representatives
During the early part of the Reconstruction Era, there were 17 African-Americans serving in Congress (2 Senators and 15 Representatives) starting with Hiram ...
Shirley Chisholm - National Women's History Museum
... and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
From the nation's founding, African Americans regarded themselves as citizens. When the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, it did not restrict citizenship ...
Past Members - California Legislative Black Caucus
'Gus' Hawkins served more than 20-years in the California State Assembly, and was subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1962. He retired ...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · National Park Service · National Endowment for the Humanities. This Site Hosted by The Library of Congress | Legal | ...
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) | Purpose, Founding, Members ...
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), caucus in the Congress of the United States consisting of several dozen African American members of the ...
Black Leaders of Reconstruction: Era & Hiram Revels | HISTORY
Did you know? In 1967, almost a century after Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce served in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction, Edward Brooke of ...
Legal Highlight: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
In the 1960s, Americans who knew only the potential of "equal protection of the laws" expected the president, the Congress, and the courts to fulfill the ...
Major African American Office Holders Since 1641 • - Blackpast
The election of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008 has focused attention on the history of black office holding.
U.S. House of Representatives members 2001-2023, by race - Statista
In the 118th Congress which began in January 2023, there were 60 Black members, 18 Asian American members, 54 Hispanic members, and five ...
Rep. Eli Crane refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' on ...
... of the Congressional Black Caucus in the previous Congress. “I am ... Resident of the states listed in the 'Your Rights' section of ...
“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 ...
Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Constitutional amendmentThe Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from requiring the payment of a poll tax or any other tax to vote in federal elections.
Racial segregation in the United States
Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.
Black genocide in the United States
In the United States, black genocide is a historiographical framework and rhetorical term used to analyze the past and present impact of systemic racism on African Americans by both the United States government and white Americans.
Ku Klux Klan Act
African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866
The United States has had five African-American elected office holders prior to 1867. 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.