
Senator Bob Casey @SenBobCasey
On this day in 1870, Mississippi's Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first Black person to serve in the Senate. In addition to making history, he was also a minister, military chaplain, alderman, state senator and President of Alcorn College in Mississippi. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/F6QsvFt5gA — PolitiTweet.org