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Hiram R. Revels: The Tar Heel Who Became America’s First Black U.S. Senator

By Rick Chromey | February 24, 2022 | 0

TweetShareShare   Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And some people wonder what happened. And then there are people like Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901). He’s a cut above. A leader’s leader. A highly-accomplished man.   One of black history’s dusty and oft-forgotten heroes. Rhodes was a freeborn black in North Carolina.…

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