Methodist clergyman, Hiram Revels, was recently celebrated as the first African-American member of Congress.
On February 26, a Methodist minister was honored in a worship service in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol almost a century and a half after he was sworn in as the first African-American member of Congress.
Sen. Hiram Revels was installed in the Senate on Feb. 25, 1870 at the height of the Reconstruction era. At a service held last Thursday, exactly 146 years later, Baptist, Methodist and Catholic leaders joined in recalling his legacy as a political and religious leader who also led African Methodist Episcopal and Methodist churches.
Last Updated on March 1, 2016