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Which of these describe Hiram Rhodes Revels?


A. The first African American to become a millionaire in Atlanta, Georgia

B. The first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress

C. The first African American to receive a doctoral degree from Harvard University

D. The first African American to charter a bank in the United States

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B is the correct answer.

Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African-American to serve in Congress, being elected to serve in the US Senate in the 1870s during reconstruction.

After reconstruction ended, African-Americans were largely exiled from public life in the South as a new era of racism took over.

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