LZ Granderson: The Senate's only Black Republican now loves Trump. It's not a good look
by LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times
Jan 27, 2024
2 minutes
The first Black Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate was a preacher by the name of Hiram Revels. He was born free, to free parents, in 1827. Mississippi state legislators sent Revels to Washington in 1870 to fill one of two vacancies. When the state seceded in 1861, both its senators went with it. One was Jefferson Davis.
Revels, after serving in the Civil War, was first
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