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Hiram R. Revels

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

(September 27, 1827 — January 16, 1901) Revels was a barber, minister, teacher, editor, and politician. Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in North Carolina in 1827. After attending Knox College, Revels worked as a barber and a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Maryland. During the Civil War, he helped recruit African American troops and served as chaplain to the Black regiments. He established African American churches in Mississippi and a school for freedmen in Missouri. After the war, Revels served in the Mississippi State Senate (1870) and was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. Revels was the first Black African American to serve in the United States Senate. He served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1871. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/R000166]

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