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Hiram Revels anniversary highlights lack of black senators

Alyssa Bass and Alyssa Bass | February 18, 2020
On Feb.11, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History celebrated the 150th anniversary of Hiram Revels becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate in Jackson at the Old Capitol Building, the very place he was elected to represent Mississippi.
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