Hiram+Rhodes+Revels

The finished movie is [|here]! Revels tried to prevent segregation in Washington D.C schools, but he didn't succeed, he did allow blacks to work at the Washington Navy Yard. Revels was parised by local newspapers while he was in office. While he was in the senate, he gave building rights for a railroad, and rights to build levees on Mississippi River. || Topic: Hiram Revels' policical career When you are a first, you can acomplish anything. Was elected in MIssissippi State Senate Hiram Rodes Revels was the first U.S black senator. When he was campaining he was facing recial descriminateion. When elected he tried to make all people have equal rights. He got people to get blacks to work with pay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~springport/pictures28/00002895.jpg http://www.oldchesterpa.com/images/churches_murphy_ame.jpg http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Revels1870.jpg/300px-Revels1870.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/400375741_7f1e9fb528.jpg?v=0 http://documents.clubexpress.com/clubs/961156/graphics/alcorn_oakland_chapel.jpg http://www.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2005/313/6125891_113165247425.jpg [] [] [|http://www.westga.edu/~distance/images/numbers.jpg] [] []
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels_-_Brady-Handy.jpg/160px-Hiram_Rhodes_Revels_-_Brady-Handy.jpg width="160" height="187" caption="Hiram Rhodes Revels" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hiram_Rhodes_Revels_-_Brady-Handy.jpg"]] || The first U.S African American senator || When numbers add up, you can make a difference. ||
 * [[image:http://web03.bestplaces.net/city/Fayetteville_NC.gif]] || Early Life || Revels was born not as a slave in Fayetteville NC 1822. He was toutered by black women for early education. Revels went to live with older brother on 1838 in Littleton NC. ||
 * [[image:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Espringport/pictures28/00002895.jpg width="194" height="261"]] || Education || Revels studied at Union Quaker Senimar to become a minister. He was in African Methodist Episcopal Church. He served in the army the Civil War with the Union. ||
 * [[image:http://www.oldchesterpa.com/images/churches_murphy_ame.jpg width="267" height="295"]] || Beginning of Political Career || Revels went back to African Methodist Episcopal Church after the Civil War. He was elected in Mississippi State Senate. This stared his policical career. ||
 * [[image:http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Revels1870.jpg/300px-Revels1870.jpg]] || Election for Senator || The senate seat that belonged to Albert G. Brown needed to occupied. Demarcates had some arguments against Hiram Rhodes Revels. They said he was n ot a citizen because the slaves were released 2 years ago. Revels was part white however, so he was a citizen his whole life. When the vote occurred, he got a vote of 48 to 4. This made history as Hiram Rhodes Revels becoming the first U.S black senator. ||
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/400375741_7f1e9fb528.jpg?v=0 width="301" height="189"]] || As U.S Senator || Revels wanted racial equality in the United States. This is a quote when whites illigally ousted blacks in the Georgia State Senate: "I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow citizens"
 * [[image:http://documents.clubexpress.com/clubs/961156/graphics/alcorn_oakland_chapel.jpg width="304" height="237"]] || College President || Revels left office a few months before it ended. He then founded Alcorn State University, which is still here today. He left to campian agenst the reelection of Adelbert Ames. He wrote a letter that was published in newspapers every denounsing Ames. It said: "Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for country, were willing to stoop to anything no matter how infamous, to secure power to themselves, and perpetuate it..... My people have been told by these schemers, when men have been placed on the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishonest, that they must vote for them; that the salvation of the party depended upon it; that the man who scratched a ticket was not a Republican. This is only one of the many means these unprincipled demagogues have devised to perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people.... The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this state, except perhaps in some localities, and would have long since been entirely obliterated, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office, and its emoluments, to control my people, the effect of which is to degrade them." ||
 * [[image:http://www.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2005/313/6125891_113165247425.jpg width="140" height="312"]] || After Polictics || Revels remained active in his ministry for the remaider of his life. He served as editor for the //Southwestern Christian Advocate.// He Died in January 16, 1901 during a church conference in Aberdeen, Mississippi ||
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