<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Rhodes_Revels" id="mwQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hiram Rhodes Revels">Hiram Rhodes Revels</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" id="mwRA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi" id="mwRQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, is sworn into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" id="mwRg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>, becoming the first <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="African American">African American</a> ever to sit in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Congress">Congress</a>.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_25#cite_note-6" id="mwSQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwSg">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt38" class="citation web cs1" id="mwBr8"><a class="external text" href="https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166" id="mwBsA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Revels, Hiram Rhodes (1827–1901)"</a>. <i id="mwBsE">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress</i>. Washington, DC: Office of the House Historian, United States Congress. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200629155153/https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=R000166" id="mwBsI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 29 June 2020<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBsM">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBsQ">5 July</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt38" class="Z3988" id="mwBsU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Biographical+Directory+of+the+United+States+Congress&amp;rft.atitle=Revels%2C+Hiram+Rhodes+%281827%E2%80%931901%29&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbioguideretro.congress.gov%2FHome%2FMemberDetails%3FmemIndex%3DR000166&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+25"></span></span>