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  1. African American Legislators
  2. African Americans
  3. Public Figures
  4. Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827? 1901

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Hiram Rhoades Revels H.R. Revels; James T. Rapier; B. K. Bruce; J. H. Rainey; John R. Lynch From the plantation to the senate The first colored senator and representatives: In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States Group portrait of U. S. Senator Hiram Revels and family Hiram Rhoades Revels Hiram Rhoades Revels Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi the first colored member of the U.S. Senate, admitted February 25th, 1870 ; Joseph F. Rainey of South Carolina the first colored member of the U.S. House of Representatives admitted December 12, 1871 Hiram Revels Hon. Hiram R. Revels senator from Mississipi The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th 1870 Letter to] My dear Wendell [manuscript The gentleman from Mississippi: our first Negro Congressman, Hiram R. Revels Gen. Stuart of the Black Horse Cavalry Theold nurse and her foundling. Sumner.--Mr. Wilson, you must not turn away from this child. Greely turns his back on me, and I look to you to take it under your wing at Philadelphia. Will you? Phillis Wheatley Will the Senator from Massachusetts do this, to make his words good? "Pile up the ashed, extinguish the flames, abolish the hate--such is my desire."--Sumner's letter, July 29, 1872 Themodern Moses to his people. Charles Sumner.--"I have brought you out of the land of slavery, out of the house of bondage, through the Red Sea of war to the promised land of equal rights to all, by the aid of this good man Horace, and I now commit you to his guardianship Knowledge is power. Uncle Sam (soliloquizing)--"If there were more men like Booker T. Washington the Negro problem would soon be solved." Rev. Lemuel Haynes
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