Hiram R. Revels and Blanche K. Bruce were both black Republican Senators elected from Mississippin during Reconstruction.
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They weren't just two black men, Hiram was an African American senator who was an ordained minister.Blanche K. Bruce was also an African American senator who was from Mississippi.
Carol Moseley Braun was the first black female senator.
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Joseph McCarthy was a US Senator from Wisconsin during the Cold War. Senator McCarthy led a witch hunt against supposed communists in the US government.
Mississippi was a Confederate state