Hiram R. Revels - Wikipedia
Wikipedia's article on Hiram R. Revels covers the minister and politician who in 1870 became the first African American seated in the United States Senate, elected by the Mississippi legislature during Reconstruction, and who later served as the first president of Alcorn State University. It quotes his 1875 letter to President Ulysses S. Grant denouncing carpetbaggers for manipulating the black vote, Senator Charles Sumner's words hailing his seating, and notes he is the protagonist of Bruce Revels's historical fiction trilogy "The Black Senator."
