Muncie Times, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 April 2000 — Page 31

The Muncie Times, April 20, 2000, page 31

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Hiram Revels Educator and United States Senator

Hiram Revels (1822-1901), educator and Reconstructionist, was bom free in Fayetteville County, North Carolina. Because there was little opportunity for obtaining an education there, he moved to a Quaker settlement in Indiana, where he acquired a rudimentary education at the Quaker seminary in Union County; later, he attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. With this training, Revels became a minister and had pastorates in several of the border states. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he helped organize the first of two Negro regiments raised in Maryland. After the successes of the Union Army in the West, Revels taught former slaves in St. Louis during 1863 and 1864. From Missouri he moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he assisted in the reorientation of the freedmen. In Jackson, he organized churches and schools. Work with the Freedmen’s Bureau led to his participation in the state’s Reconstruction activities. He was appointed alderman by General Ames, the military governor of the area. He was elected to the senate of Mississippi in 1869 and the following year was appointed to the United Staes Senate to fill the term vacated by Jefferson Davis. For a few months, Revels served as secretary of state under Governor Powers. After his term in the Senate, he returned to Rodney Mississippi, to serve as president of Alcorn College, a new institution to which he devoted his remaining years, forming a creditable educational center for Negroes. Later, he served as an African Methodist Episcopal minister in Indiana.

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