By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Getty Images Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, was inaugurated into the United States Senate on February 25, 1870. Revels became the first African American to serve in the United States Congress. Hiram Rhodes Revels was a politician and a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). He […]
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