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Birthday of Hiram Revels
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life of hiram revels
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attended the Beech Grove Quaker Seminary in LIberty, Indianna
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married his wife and had 6 daughters
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participated in the civil war
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organized two black regiments for the union army
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he was ordered a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Md
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argued that there should be equal education for African American students
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Revels resigned from the Senate after a year to accept the presidency of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
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garnedned enough communtiy support to win election for alderman
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State Senate elected revels to fill a vacant seat in the United States Senate
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become the president of a historically black college.
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Death of Hiram Revels