Revels
Americannoun
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Check the history books for a better example of moral leadership: Hiram Revels, the first Black Republican in the Senate.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2024
The selection represented a wide variety of art forms, sizes and funding levels, from Tacoma’s Puget Sound Revels, which performs music and theater and was awarded $2,800, to Redmond’s Centro Cultural Mexicano, which received $25,000.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023
He followed in the distant footsteps of African Americans Hiram Revels, elected in 1870 to fill a Senate seat from Mississippi, and Blanche K. Bruce, elected to the Senate in 1875, also from Mississippi.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2021
Pamela Revels when students have been eating pancakes at the school breakfast.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2018
Jonson followed up his success by producing the plays of "Every Man out of his Humor," and "Cynthia's Revels," dramatic satires on the manners, follies, affectations, and vices of the city and the court.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
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