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
It is a “school resource officer” like Corporal Revels, an often-overlooked role in law enforcement that is under the national glare like never before.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2018
All the pomp of his delight Revels on the ravisht night, Wandering wilful, soaring fair: There!
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
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