[DOC] [TLE] Black Leaders During Reconstruction - American Civil War ... [PAR] Frederick Douglass, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Bruce, African American Leaders ... 
rights under the law, both as individuals and for the black community as a whole. 
... Revels and Blanche Bruce served in the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction, ... 
which excluded blacks from southern politics and allowed state legislatures to... [DOC] [TLE] U.S. Senate: Breaking New Ground -- African American Senators [PAR] In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. ... Tim Scott of South Carolina was appointed to fill a vacancy in 2013, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to represent a Southern state in the Senate. He was elected to a full term in 2014. [DOC] [TLE] Blanche Bruce - Wikipedia [PAR] Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841  March 17, 1898) was a U.S. politician who 
represented Mississippi as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1875 to 1881; of 
mixed race, he was the first elected black senator to serve a full term. Hiram R. 
Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve ... He became 
sergeant-at-arms for the Mississippi state senate in 1870. [DOC] [TLE] African American Congressmen - Charles W. Chesnutt [PAR] Although African American played a role in politics from the earliest days of ... 
The first two African American Senators were Hiram Revels and Blanche K. 
Bruce. With the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow laws, African ... 
There were two African Americans elected to office who represented the state of 
Mississippi... [DOC] [TLE] Blanche K. Bruce in Reconstruction - Shmoop [PAR] Blanche K. Bruce (1841-1898) was a black senator representing Mississippi ... 
their master moved his plantation to Missouri, Bruce and his two brothers 
escaped to ... The Republican-controlled state legislature elected Bruce to the 
Senate in 1874. During his single term, Bruce advocated equal treatment for both 
blacks and... [DOC] [TLE] Reconstruction and Its Aftermath - The African American Odyssey: A ... [PAR] Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, two more years of war, service by .... 
the Fisk Jubilee Singers that first made general audiences conscious of their 
beauty. ... The only two African Americans to serve as United States Senators in 
the nineteenth century were Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels, both of 
Mississippi. [DOC] [TLE] African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath (Part 2) [PAR] Prior to the Civil War, slave states had laws forbidding literacy for the enslaved. ... 
the Fisk Jubilee Singers that first made general audiences conscious of their 
beauty. ... The only two African Americans to serve as United States Senators in 
the nineteenth century were Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels, both of 
Mississippi. [DOC] [TLE] Cory Booker and the First Black Senators | The African Americans ... [PAR] Hiram Revels, the first black senator in Congress, paved the way for men like 
Cory ... William Mo Cowan, to fill the vacancy left by current Secretary of State 
John Kerry ... In both cases, Scott, a Tea Party favorite and the first black senator 
from the ... first two, Hiram R. Revels (1870-1871) and Blanche K. Bruce (1875-
1881),... [DOC] [TLE] Rooted in Reconstruction: The First Wave of Black Congressmen ... [PAR] Oct 15, 2008 ... Rooted in Reconstruction: The First Wave of Black Congressmen ... three: Hiram 
Revels and Blanche Bruce, both senators from Mississippi, ... and delivered it to 
the Union navy, a deed that made him a national hero. .... numbers forty-two 
members, seventeen of them from the states of the old Confederacy. [DOC] [TLE] Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1865-1876 | Mississippi History Now [PAR] Hiram R. Revels of Natchez was appointed by the predominantly Republican ... 
Republican Blanche K. Bruce of Bolivar County, Mississippi, in 1875 was the ... 
Reconstruction for Mississippi's black and white citizens was particularly intense. 
... had produced cotton for the world market, emerged from the Civil War in a state
... [DOC] [TLE] Reconstruction and Beyond: The 8 African-American Senators ... [PAR] Feb 1, 2013 ... The

Question: Reconstruction produced 2 black senators: Hiram Revels & Blanche Bruce, both from this state
Answer: Mississippi