Biographical Sidebar:
Hiram Revels and
Blanche K. Bruce

After being elected to the state Senate in 1869, Revels was chosen by the legislature to fill Mississippi's unexpired term in the U. S. Senate, serving from February 1870 to March 1871.

After leaving the Senate, Revels was for several years president of Alcorn University, an institution for African American students established during Reconstruction.

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He also worked for the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he had joined during the Civil War, and in 1876 unsuccessfully protested his church's plans to hold racially segregated annual conferences in the South.
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