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Early Black Political Leaders

For Black History Month this election year, we wanted to highlight a few black heroes that were early political leaders.

The first black US Senator was Hiram Rhodes Revels
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Blanche Kelso Bruce
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[link removed] took his seat in the US Senate in 1875 and served until 1881, in this role he championed the rights of black war veterans and Native Americans. He was also the first black person to preside over a Senate session on February 14, 1879. Bruce spent the remainder of his life after the Senate in various other political offices.

Joseph Hayne Rainey
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[link removed] worked as a barber before being pressed into service by the Confederacy during the Civil War; in 1862 he escaped to Bermuda where he remained until the end of the war. He was a delegate to the 1868 South Carolina state constitutional convention. Rainey was elected to the US House of Representatives where he served from 1870-1879. He also has the distinction of being the first black person to preside over the House of Representatives in 1874. (In the WallBuilders collection, we have his signature -- pictured on the left.)

We encourage you to take some time to learn more about these men and other black history heroes
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* This poster has a color version of the 1872 Currier & Ives original and includes short biographies on each of the first seven black Americans to serve in the US Congress!

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