First African American in the US Senate
Hiram Revels: The first African American congressman
On this day in 1870, an African American politician was seated in the United States Senate for the first time, but only after Republican ...
List of African-American United States senators - Wikipedia
Four incumbent senators are African American: (clockwise from top left) Tim Scott, Cory Booker, Raphael Warnock, and Laphonza Butler. Three of the 12 African ...
First Colored Senators and Representatives, 1872 - Online Classroom
Also born into slavery in South Carolina, Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the first ...
Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American in Congress
A freeman his entire life, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political ...
African Americans in the United States Congress - Wikipedia
The first African American to serve was Senator Hiram Revels in 1870. The first African American to chair a congressional committee was Representative William L ...
Who Was Hiram Revels, the First African American Senator?
Learn more about the life of Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
African American Senators - U.S. Senate
African American Senators ; ButlerLaphonza R. Butler (D-CA) ; WarnockRaphael G. Warnock (D-GA) ; HarrisKamala D. Harris (D-CA) ; BookerCory A. Booker (D-NJ) ; Cowan ...
Feb. 25, 1870: Hiram Revels Sworn into Office - Zinn Education Project
On Feb. 25, 1870, Hiram Revels was sworn into office as senator from Mississippi, becoming the first African American to serve in the US Senate.
Hiram Revels - The First African American U.S. Senator - C-SPAN
On February 25th, Revels became the first African American to be seated in the United States Senate, after a party-line vote in the chamber.
Cory Booker and the First Black Senators | The African Americans
Hiram R. Revels ... In late February 1870, there was no question whether the first black senator-elect in American history — and one of the first Mississippi had ...
The First Colored Senator and Representatives
A freeman and Methodist preacher, Revels became the first African-American to serve in the Congress as a Senator after filling the vacant seat for Mississippi.
Hiram Revels: First African American Senator | Headlines & Heroes
Two days after Mississippi is readmitted to the Union on February 23, 1870, Hiram Revels, a schoolmaster and preacher, becomes the first ...
"First Colored Senator and Representatives in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. ... Reconstruction saw the election of an African American senator, ...
Former Slave Presides over Senate
... U.S. Senate. Several years earlier, that legislature had sent the Senate its first African-American member when it elected Hiram Revels to fill out the ...
Grade School - Black Americans in Congress - Kids in the House
The first African-American Members, Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina and Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi, were elected to office in 1870.
Hiram Rhodes Revels Elected to U.S. Senate During Reconstruction
On Jan. 20, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to be elected to serve in the US Senate.
First African American in the US Senate | Today in History - YouTube
Today marks a special anniversary for Congress that deserves celebration.
US Senate has only had 11 Black senators in its 232-year history
Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator, took office in the late 1800s as part of a wave of African American lawmakers during the ...
Today in Civil Rights History: First African American Senator Gives ...
On March 16, 1870, Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American to give a speech on the floor of the US Senate.
African American Members of the U.S. Congress: 1870-2020
The first African American Members, Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative. Joseph Rainey of South Carolina, both took the oath ...