What’s cool—pick of the weekTry http://www.freetown.org | |
 Revels | America’s first African-American U.S. senator, Hiram Revels (R-Mississippi), was chosen for office in January 1870 by legislative vote to fill the unexpired term of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. He also had Hoosier connections, having done religious work in the state as an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. IU Home Pages takes you today to Freetown Village, a living history museum based in Indianapolis that depicts the lives and lifestyles of free blacks in the year that Revels took office. The “residents” of Freetown Village are composite characters of the approximately 3,000 men, women and children listed in the 1870 Indianapolis census. An acting troupe from Freetown Village paid a visit to the IU Northwest campus for a Black History Month performance titled Shindig Feb 7.
This pivotal time in African-American history saw the lives of former slaves changed dramatically with the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Constitutional amendments and gave way to major achievements in education, politics, economics and social issues. |
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