Revels, the colored Senator from Mississippi, was sworn in and admitted to his seat this afternoon at o'clock. Republicans cut off objections from the southern Democrats, and the vote was to let Revels take his Senate seat. Revels showed no embarrassment whatever, and his demeanor was as dignified as could be expected under the circumstances.
Three weeks later, Revels gave his first speech to a packed Senate gallery about fears that Georgia would forbid blacks from holding public office using language that was part of its deal to gain admittance back to the Union. In his brief Senate career, Revels was seen as a moderate who opposed segregation and supported civil rights, but he also wanted amnesty for former Confederate soldiers.
Revels chose not to seek more time in the Senate, and he left Washington in March to become the first president of what became Alcorn University, the first land grant school for African-Americans in the United States. Revels remained active in the religious and educational communities for the rest of his life. He died on January 16, , as he was attending a religious conference.
In , Blanche Kelso Bruce, also of Mississippi and of African-American descent, was elected to the Senate and served a full six-year term. It would be another 92 years until Edward Brooke of Massachusetts became the third black to win a seat in the U. By Bill Bigelow and Linda Christensen. Empathy, or "social imagination," allows students to connect to "the other" with whom, on the surface, they may appear to have little in common.
Rethinking the U. By Bob Peterson. A role play on the Constitutional Convention which brings to life the social forces active during and immediately following the American Revolution with focus on two key topics: suffrage and slavery. By Doug Sherman. The author describes how he uses biographies and film to introduce students to the role of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement beyond the familiar heroes.
He emphasizes the role and experiences of young people in the Movement. Related Resources. Teaching Activities Free. Teaching Activity. This role play engages students in thinking about what freedpeople needed in order to achieve—and sustain—real freedom following the Civil War. It's followed by a chapter from the book Freedom's Unfinished Revolution. By Adam Sanchez and Nqobile Mthethwa. A mixer role play explores the connections between different social movements during Reconstruction.
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca. Unit with three lessons on voting rights, including the history of the struggle against voter suppression in the United States.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! On February 25, , the U. This ended the long-standing policy of using only gold or silver in transactions, and it allowed the government to finance the enormously costly On February 25, , year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout.
The dreaded Liston, who had twice demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favorite. On February 25, , John Adams, son of President John Quincy Adams, marries his first cousin and inadvertently follows a pattern of keeping marriages within the family. The two poets fell in love at first sight and married four months later.
Plath was born in , the daughter of an autocratic German father who taught biology and was a leading Not coincidentally, the day was Ash Wednesday, the start of the Catholic season of Lent. The star of Actor Robert Mitchum is released from a Los Angeles County prison farm after spending the final week of his two-month sentence for marijuana possession there.
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