Hiram Revels, the first Black US senator, took office in the late 1800s as part of a wave of African American lawmakers during the Reconstruction era, but he was elected by the Mississippi ...

There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws—part of a wave of new Jim Crow laws—blocking ...

Bowie State University celebrates the graduation of its Spring 2025 class, with U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks delivering a ...

In an 1867 address to Congress, President Andrew Johnson ... The Birth of a Nation (1915), which portrayed Reconstruction-era Black legislators as “comically” idiotic, necessitating the ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

The National Park Service manages 433 units around the country, including many smaller parks aimed at preserving places of ...

As misguided as he might be, the reality is a lot of people (Black people ... 5% of the congressional seats (153 House members and 44 Senators). Little is known about my third great-great-great ...

Charles Rangel, a founding member and pioneering leader of the US Congressional Black Caucus, died on Monday, the Caucus said ...

1867 — Reconstruction and military ... President Pro Tempore of the State Senate 1872-November 27, 1877. 1872 — Richard H. Gleaves became the second black elected as lieutenant governor ...

“To me, the story of Reconstruction is the story of obstacles ... from the pulpit of a local church to become the first black U.S. senator in the nation’s history. Colfax, La.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional ...

Richmond may have taken down Confederate statues, but more than 685 Confederate monuments still stand in public spaces, ...