Life of HIram Revels

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  • attended the Beech Grove Quaker Seminary in LIberty, Indianna

  • married his wife and had 6 daughters

  • participated in the civil war

  • organized two black regiments for the union army

  • he was ordered a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Md

  • argued that there should be equal education for African American students

  • Revels resigned from the Senate after a year to accept the presidency of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College

  • garnedned enough communtiy support to win election for alderman

  • State Senate elected revels to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate

  • become the president of a historically black college.

  • Death of Hiram Revels