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 11 Black senators ever elected or appointed.

Hiram Revels East was founded in his honor. Through Hiram Revels East, Revels-Davis said she provides free college workshops for high schoolers and their parents, alongside a $250 scholarship.

Hiram Rhodes Revels was born a free man in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1822. His father was of black, white and Lumbee (Native American) ancestry and his mother was an emancipated slave.

The first Black Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate was a preacher by the name of Hiram Revels. He was born free, to free parents, in 1827. Mississippi state legislators sent Revels to ...

Hiram Rhoades Revels, 27 Sep 1827 - 16 Jan 1901 Exhibition Label Born Fayetteville, North Carolina When Hiram Revels joined the U.S. Senate on February 25, 1870, he became the first African American ...

Young raised enough funds to build a church for Hiram Revels. It’s been rebuilt twice, but St. Paul’s African Methodist Episcopal Church still welcomes a small congregation.

Hiram R. Revels was born on September 27, 1827, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Revels participated in the Civil War, organizing two black regiments for the Union Army and fighting for the Union ...

Senator Hiram Revels (left) was the first African American member of the United States Senate, representing Mississippi. He took the oath of office on Feb. 25, 1870. Blanche Kelso Bruce (right ...

Senator Hiram Revels (left) was the first African American member of the United States Senate, representing Mississippi. He took the oath of office on Feb. 25, 1870.

Hiram Revels was the first pastor of the church in the 1860s. He later became the first Black man to serve in U.S. Congress. When Brown Pettigrew began school in 1949, ...

Few people remember Hiram Rhodes Revels outside of those who study the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. But historians have found Revels intriguing for various reasons. During the period of ...