Who was the former slave and the first African American elected to a full term in the senate and argued strongly against segregation?

Answer 1

Blanche Kelso Bruce was born in slavery in Virginia in 1841. He was elected as a Republican to the US Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881. He was the second African American to serve in the US Senate and the first African American elected to a full term.

Answer 2

Blanche Bruce is considered the first elected black senator to serve a full term. At the time Senators were still chosen by the legislatures of each state. The Mississippi state legislature elected Bruce to be a U.S. Senator in 1975. He was of mixed race, the illegitimate son of Polly Bruce, an African-American woman who served as a domestic slave and her master, Pettis Perkinson, a white Virginia planter. His father legally freed Blanche and arranged for an apprenticeship so he could learn a trade.

His predecessor in the office was Hiram Rhodes Revels, who was also African-American. Revels was chosen by the Mississippi state legislature to finish out the term of Albert G. Brown, who resigned during the Civil War. As such, he was the first African-American Senator but Revels was born free (not as a slave) and did not serve a full term so he is not the man described in the question above.

Answer 3

Blanche K. Bruce (apex)

Answer 4

blanche k bruce