After his term ended, Revels became president of historically black Alcorn ... efforts in the Senate, Republican influence in Mississippi diminished toward the end of the Reconstruction period ...

The wounds of the Civil War were still fresh in 1869. The Reconstruction Era was in its infancy. In the form of Black Codes, the seeds of Jim Crow laws were starting to take root. Yet against all ...

Reconstruction’s black Congressmen did not see themselves simply as spokesmen for the black community. Blanche Bruce was one of the more conservative black leaders; yet in the Senate he spoke ...

M. Revels of Mississippi and black representatives of the US Congress during the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War, circa 1870-1875.Archive Photos/Getty Images Yet America’s ...

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 ...

Congress also created the Freedmen’s Bureau ... he published in 1935 his monumental Black Reconstruction. The book traced the origins of the violence that Wells denounced.

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 ...

In those days, state legislators elected United States Senators, and during Reconstruction, Mississippi’s legislature elected two black Senators. The first of these came to power on February 25 ...

But the idea that Reconstruction-era historians hid ... only nine of the next 140 Black members of Congress belonged to the GOP. We rate this claim PARTLY FALSE based on our research.

There’s been a lot of attention given recently to the Black male vote as it relates to the presidential election. Will former President Donald Trump capture enough votes to tilt the tally away ...

Alabama has elected 190 members to the U.S. House for over 205 years, but it achieved a first last week: Two Black residents from Alabama took the oath of office to serve in the U.S. House at the ...

This story originally appeared as part of NPR's live coverage of the 2024 election. For more election coverage from the NPR Network head to our live updates page. Two states elected Black women ...