Hiram Revels Collection, 1870-1948.

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Hiram Revels Collection, 1870-1948.

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Hiram Rhoades Revels served as a clergyman, first African American appointed to become a United States senator from a southern state during Reconstruction, and college president. The Hiram Revels Collection consists principally of a scrapbook of news clippings in addition to biographicl articles about Revels.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 6827291

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Cayton, Susie Revels, 1870-1943

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Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827 – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a college administrator. Born free in North Carolina, he later lived and worked in Ohio, where he voted before the Civil War. He became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress when he was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era. During the America...

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