July 31, 1875 (aged 66)

North Carolina, U.S.

Johnson's presidency was dominated by the issues surrounding Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson became the seventeenth president of the United States on April 15, 1865, the morning that President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865; served 1861–65) died.

On February 15, 1879, President Hayes signed "an act to relieve certain legal disabilities of women." This act opened eligibility to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court to any woman lawyer of good moral character who had practiced for three years before any state Supreme Court. On March 3, 1879, Belva Ann Lockwood of Illinois became the first woman admitted to practice before the Court.

Died: January 16, 1901 in Aberdeen, Mississippi, United States

Fayetteville North Carolina

Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901), African American clergyman and university administrator, was the first black American to sit in the U.S. Senate.

In 1845 he was ordained a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Md.

Died: August 01, 1887 in Georgetown, South Carolina, United States

the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives

Rainey escaped with his wife to the West Indies and remained there until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

Died: February 23, 1915 in United States

commandeered a Confederate ship to escape from the South and later became the first Black captain of a vessel in U.S. service.

Robert Smalls was born a slave on 5 April 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Died: August 11, 1868 in Washington, District of

Danville Vermont

We know Thaddeus Stevens as an ardent abolitionist who championed the rights of blacks for decades

His father abandoned the family when Stevens was yet a boy and he owed most of his future success to the virtues of industry and hard work instilled in him by his mother.

Died: August 04, 1886 in Yonkers, New York, United

new Lebanon,New York

He served in the New York State Assembly and helped launch Van Buren's candidacy in the 1848 United States presidential election.

During the 1840s Tilden associated with the reformist, antislavery wing of the New York Democrats.

Died: October 12, 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

isle of wight,Georgia

Susie King Taylor was the first Black educator to teach openly in a school for formerly enslaved students.

She was born a slave on 6 August 1848 on one of the Sea Islands located thirty-five miles off the coast of Georgia.

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