- Date:
- 1872
- Original Format:
- Fine Print Illustration
- Item#:
- 1860.0077
"The First Colored Senator and Representatives"
This lithograph by Currier & Ives shows the first African Americans to serve in Congress. From left to right are: Hiram Rhodes Revels, Senator from Mississippi; Benjamin Sterling Turner, a representative of Alabama; Robert Carlos De Large, a representative of South Carolina; Josiah Thomas Walls, a representative of Florida; Jefferson Franklin Long, a representative of Georgia; Joseph Hayne Rainy, a representative of South Carolina; and Robert Brown Elliot, a representative of South Carolina.