As Illinois Sen. Barack Obama hopes to become the nation’s first black president, today’s page looks at the man who became the nation’s first black senator more than 130 years ago. Hiram Rhodes Revels ...

Hiram Rhodes Revels came to the Senate after the Civil War in a shining moment of triumph — a black man taking over the seat once held by Jefferson Davis. It didn’t last. Hiram Rhodes Revels came to ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hiram R. Revels was born on September 27, 1827, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Revels participated in the Civil War, organizing two black regiments ...

On February 25th, 1870, Hiram R. Revels became the first black man to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Read more about his life and legacy! Before Obama made his mark, there was one man every black ...

To mark Constitution Day, the 226th anniversary of the Sept. 17 signing of the United States Constitution, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia honored the first African-American to serve ...

On this day in 1870, an African-American politician was seated in the United States Senate for the first time, but only after Republican leaders rebuffed a challenge based on the infamous Dred Scott ...

This month, I am introducing a resolution to recognize a groundbreaking U.S. senator from Mississippi. Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in Congress in United States history.

Mississippi should commission the creation of a new statue to recognize a real state hero, Hiram Robles Revels, to be placed in the National Statuary Hall as the first black U.S. senator to serve.

2011-03-20T14:12:33-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2e0/297938-m.jpgLaura Turner O’Hara talked about former Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels (MS-R), the first black ...

The wounds of the Civil War were still fresh in 1869. The Reconstruction Era was in its infancy. In the form of Black Codes, the seeds of Jim Crow laws were starting to take root. Yet against all odds ...