THE FIRST COLORED SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVES
H.R. Revels (seated at far left), the first black senator in the United States, was elected to Jefferson Davis's seat in 1870. The first black representatives of the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses were: (seated) Benjamin S. Turner, Alabama; Josiah T. Walls, Florida; Joseph H. Rainey and Robert Brown Elliott, South Carolina; (standing) Robert C. Delarge, South Carolina; and Jefferson H. Long, Georgia. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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