| A | B |
|---|
| Hiram Revels | Arrive on Capital Hill in 1870 as first AA Senator from Mississippi |
| Joseph Rainey | First African American Representatitve from South Carolina. |
| Oscar De Priest | Illinois 1929-1935 Congressman |
| Adam Clayton Powell | New York 1945-1971 Congressman |
| George White | North Carolina 1897-1901, Congressman |
| Robert Elliot | South Carolina 1871-1874, Congressman |
| Shirley Chisholm | New York 1969-1983, Congressman |
| Jeanette Rankin | First woman to serve in Congress (1917) |
| Arthur W. Mitchell | First black Democrat in Congress. |
| First era of participation, 1870-1901 | Pioneering |
| Second era of participation, 1929-1970 | Apprenticeship |
| Third era of participation, 1971-2007 | Mature Integration |
| William Levi Dawson | Representative from Illinois, 1943-1970 |
| Augustus Gus Hawkins | Representative from California, 1963-1991 |
| William H Gray III | Representative from Pennsylvania, 1979-1991 |
| 1901 - 1929 | Period in which no blacks were in the federal legislature (numbers 0000 - 0000) |
| Richard Cain | Representative from South Carolina, 1877-1879 |
| John Willis Menard | Representative from Louisiana, 1867-1869 |
| James Mann | Repersentative from Louisiana replaced by John Menard |
| Jim Crow | A term describing segregation |
