America’s first Black senators, Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce, presented by historian Dan Holt, Thursday, Feb. 23, 1:30 p.m. View the presentation via Zoom at the Walter Reed 55+ Center ...

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Adelaide Beeman-White crafts her own Victorian clothing, writes with dip pens, and has neighbors wondering about the "Mary ...

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 ...

Fayetteville's connection to historical figures like the Marquis de Lafayette and Hiram Revels has also been highlighted on the show.

Names like Hiram Revels, the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress as a senator from Mississippi but ordained in West Baltimore. Rev.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. When Hiram Revels joined the U.S. Senate on February 25, 1870, he became the first African American to serve in ...

Between 1865 and 1876, more than 200 Black Mississippians held office, including Hiram Revels, the nation’s first Black senator.

Few people remember Hiram Rhodes Revels outside of those who study the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War.

North Carolina native Hiram Revels was the first Black person to serve in the U.S. Senate. But his legacy expands beyond his time in the Senate, and his roles in ministry and education solidify ...

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 ...

Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.