Sandford, Black people could never be citizens. According to the Supreme Court’s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v. George Vickers, a Democrat from Maryland, argued that Revels was ineligible to serve because the Constitution requires a senator to have been an American citizen for at least nine years. Before Revels could raise his right hand, the objections began raining down. It was a bold and unapologetic statement that Black Americans - Black men, anyway - were the political equals of whites, and were entitled to hold office alongside them.īut the wounds of the Civil War were still fresh, and Southern whites were furious at being forced to share power with the people they had so recently enslaved. Senate seats, both of which had been abandoned several years earlier, when the state seceded.
In 1870, the state Legislature chose Revels to fill one of Mississippi’s two U.S. 25, 1870, America’s first Black senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, sat on the floor of the Senate preparing to take his oath of office. But the proximity of those two events - the election of a Black man to the Senate followed hard on by the violent ransacking of the Capitol by an overwhelmingly white mob - rang loudly with echoes of the past.Ī little more than 150 years ago, on the afternoon of Feb. That was the salient political fact, at least before the insurrection began.
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Warnock’s triumph, along with that of Jon Ossoff, who won the other Georgia runoff on that Tuesday night, gave Democrats the Senate majority they lost in 2014, and full control of Congress for the first time in a decade. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, the first Black Democratic senator from the South in the nation’s history. 6 Capitol riot was another momentous event that happened barely 12 hours earlier and hundreds of miles away: the election to the Senate of the Rev.
Lost in the horror and mayhem of the Jan.
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