Hiram Rhodes Revels

Hiram Rhodes Revels () adalah seorang Senator Amerika Serikat dari Partai Republik, pendeta dalam Gereja Episkopal Methodis Afrika, dan administrator perguruan tinggi. Lahir sebagai orang bebas di Carolina Utara ia kemudian tinggal dan bekerja di Ohio, dimana ia dipilih sebelum Perang Saudara. Ia menjadi Afrika Amerika pertama yang menjabat dalam Kongres Amerika Serikat dimana ia terpilih dalam Senat Amerika Serikat sebagai anggota Partai Republik untuk mewakili Mississippi pada 1870 dan 1871 dalam era Rekonstruksi.

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Sumber primer 

 Borome, Joseph A. "The Autobiography of Hiram Rhodes Revels Together with Some Letters by and about Him," Midwest Journal, 5 (Winter 1952–1953), pp. 79–92.
 Lynch, John R. The Facts of Reconstruction (1913), Online at Project Gutenberg – Memoir by Mississippi Congressman (a freedman) who served during Reconstruction

Rujukan lain 

 Foner, Eric. Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction. 1996. Revised. .
 Gravely, William B., "Hiram Revels Protests Racial Separation in the Methodist Episcopal Church (1876)," Methodist History, 8 (1970), pp. 13–20.
 Hamilton, Brian, "The Monuments We Never Built," Edge Effects, August 22, 2017 http://edgeeffects.net/hiram-revels
 0Harris, William C., The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi, Louisiana State University Press, 1979
 Haskins, James, Distinguished African American Political and Governmental Leaders, Oryx Press. 1999. pp: 216–8.
 Hildebrand, Reginald F., The Times Were Strange and Stirring: Methodist Preachers and the Crisis of Emancipation, Duke University Press, 1995
 State Library of North Carolina
 Clergy Politicians in Mississippi
 Biographical sketch at the U.S. Senate website
 Portrait and biography, Harper's Weekly, February 19, 1870, p. 116
 "The Colored Member Admitted to His Seat in the Senate", New York Times, February 25, 1870

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