Hiram Revels Quotes

Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce, Edward Brooke, Carol Moseley Braun, Barack Obama, Roland W. Burris, Tim Scott, William “Mo” Cowan, Cory A. Booker, Kamala D. Harris, Raphael Warnock: that is the full and complete list of African Americans to serve in the United States Senate in the history of this country.

the Great Exodus of 1879. Fifteen Black men were elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1870 to 1887, and two men of the race served in the U.S. Senate: Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce, both from the state of Mississippi. Such