The civil rights movement aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities, and establish their electoral power, just after th
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867
First Colored Senator and Representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC), 1872