Please help me and hurry 1.Explain how the first black Congressmen worked to dispel stereotypes about black people?

2.What kind of qualities do you think it took to become one of the first black Congressmen in America? What influence do you think they had on other black men and women of the time?

1. Since 1870, when Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first African Americans to serve in Congress, a total of 162 African Americans have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, or Senators. This Web site, based on the publication Black Americans in Congress, contains biographical profiles of former African-American Members of Congress, links to information about current Black Members, essays on institutional and national events that shaped successive generations of African Americans in Congress, and images of each individual Member, supplemented by other historical photos.

2. On February 1870, visitors from Senate galleries got into applause as  Hiram Revels, a senator from Mississippi, entered the hall to take his office. Some was about to become the first African American to serve in the United States Congress.  

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