Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has become the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, as the 119th Congress begins Friday. Scott was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-Gov. Nikki Haley (R ...

Cory Booker is a Democratic U.S. Senator who has represented New Jersey since 2013, when he became the first Black person to hold the seat. He won a special election and was reelected for a full term ...

Charles Sumner, the senator from ... humiliations that black people face. And the Civil Rights of 1875 is an attempt to address them. Ted Tunnell: The second Reconstruction is what historians ...

This lesson is as old as Black political participation itself. The Reconstruction era saw Black elected officials emerge in unprecedented numbers, from U.S. Senators like Hiram Revels to hundreds of ...

U.S. Senator Cory ... into law post-Reconstruction Era. Ultimately Thurmond’s filibuster did not prevail. Though the law’s intended outcome of equal voting rights for Black Americans had ...

No person shall be a Senator or Representative ... the resistance to the passage of Reconstruction legislation and had supported the imposition of the onerous Black Codes on the freedmen.