This Week In Black History Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2023

O.J. SIMPSON
September 27
1817—Hiram R. Revels is born free in Fayetteville, N.C. Revels becomes the first Black to serve in the United States Senate shortly after the Civil War.
1876—Edward Mitchell Bannister upsets racist Whites who believe Blacks have no artistic skill by winning a bronze medal for a painting he displayed at the American Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.In this June 1989 file photo, Illinois Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks holds a portrait of herself painted b