February is more than just Black History Month — it is a time to reflect on powerful events that have shaped not only African ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is day 25 of Black History Month and we have your Black history fact of the day. On this day in 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels took oath as the first African American Senator.

On this day in history, a young Muhammed Ali knocked out Sonny Liston for his first world title in 1964, the NCAA suspended the SMU football program for the 1987 season and in 1870, the first ...

In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a "revolving gun," the first of the six-shooters. In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Black ...

In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Black American to sit in Congress. File Photo by Library of Congress/UPI In 1901 ...

Hiram Revels is depicted around 1870, the year he was elected to the U.S. Senate. (Artist unknown; Photo by Heritage Art/Heritage Images/via Getty Images) Hiram Rhodes Revels broke political ...

The first, an itinerant preacher named Hiram Rhodes Revels, was picked in 1870 by the Mississippi legislature, then dominated by carpetbaggers and Negroes, to fill the Senate seat once occupied by ...

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