United States Senate
Senator Hiram Revels (R-MS)-- 1870-71 
Senator Blanche K. Bruce (R-MS)-- 1875-81
Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-MA)-- 1967-79
Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)-- 1993-98 

United States House of Representatives
Rep. Joseph H. Rainey (R-SC)-- 1870-79
Rep. Jefferson F. Long (R-GA)-- 1870-71
Rep. Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)--  1871-74
Rep. Robert C. DeLarge (R-SC)-- 1871-73
Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL)-- 1871-73
Rep. Josiah T. Walls (R-FL)-- 1871-73
Rep. Richard H. Cain (R-SC)-- 1873-75/ 1877-79
Rep. John R. Lynch (R-MS)-- 1873-1877/1882-83
Rep. James T. Rapier (R-AL)-- 1873-1875
Rep. Alonzo J. Ransier (R-SC)-- 1873-75
Rep. Jeremiah Haralson (R-AL)-- 1875-77
Rep. John A. Hyman (R-NC)-- 1875-77
Rep. Charles E. Nash (R-AL)-- 1875-77
Rep. Robert Smalls (R-SC)-- 1875-79
Rep. James E. O'Hara (R-NC)-- 1883-87
Rep. Henry P. Cheatham (R-NC)-- 1889-93
Rep. John M. Langston (R-VA)-- 1890-91
Rep. Thomas E. Miller (R-SC)-- 1890-91
Rep. George W. Murray (R-SC)-- 1893-95/ 1896-97
Rep. George W. White (R-NC)-- 1897-1901
Rep. Oscar DePriest (R-IL)-- 1929-35
Rep. Arthur W. Mitchell (D-IL)-- 1935-43
Rep. William L. Dawson (Independent-IL)-- 1943-70
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (D-NY)-- 1945-67/ 69-71
Rep. Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D-MI)-- 1955-80
Rep. Robert N.C. Nix (D-PA)-- 1958-1978
Rep. Augustus F. Hawkins (D-CA)-- 1963-1990
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI)-- 1965-present
Rep. William L. Clay, Sr. (D-MO)-- 1969-2000
Rep. Louis Stokes (D-OH)-- 1969-1998
Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)-- 1969-1982
Rep. George W. Collins (D-IL)-- 1970-1972
Rep. Ronald V. Dellums (D-CA)-- 1971-1998
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)-- 1991-
Rep. Ralph H. Metcalfe (D-IL)-- 1971-78
Rep. Parren H. Mitchell (D-MD)-- 1971-86
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)-- 1971-present
Delegate Walter E. Fauntroy (D-District of Columbia)--1971-1990
Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (D-CA)-- 1973-79
Rep. Cardiss Collins (D-IL)-- 1973-96
Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-TX)-- 1973-78
Rep. Andrew Young (D-GA)-- 1973-77
Rep. Harold E. Ford (D-TN)-- 1975-1996
Rep. Julian C. Dixon (D-CA)-- 1979-2000
Rep. William H. Gray, III (D-PA)-- 1979-91
Rep. Mickey Leland (D-TX)-- 1979-89
Delegate Melvin Evans (R-VI)-- 1979-80
Rep. Bennett McVey Steward (D-IL)-- 1979-80
Rep. George W. Crockett (D-MI)-- 1980-90
Rep. Mervyn M. Dymally (D-CA)-- 1981-92
Rep. Gus Savage (D-IL)-- 1981-92
Rep. Harold Washington( D-IL)-- 1981-83
Rep. Katie Hall(D-IN)-- 1982-84
Rep. Major Owens(D-NY)-- 1983-present
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)-- 1983-present
Rep. Alan Wheat (D-MO)-- 1983-94
Rep. Charles Hayes (D-IL)-- 1983-92
Rep. Alton R. Waldon, Jr. (D-NY)-- 1986-87
Rep. Mike Espy (D-MS)-- 1987-93
Rep. Floyd Flake (D-NY)--1987-97
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)--1987-present
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD)--1987-95
Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ)-- 1989-present
Rep. Craig A. Washington (D-TX)--1989-94
Rep. Barbara-Rose Collins (D-MI)-- 1991-96
Rep. Gary Franks (R-CT)-- 1991-96
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.)-- 1991-present
Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)-- 1991-present
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)-- 1991-present
Rep. Lucien Blackwell (D-PA)-- 1991-94
Rep. Eva Clayton (D-NC)-- 1992-present
Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA)-- 1993-present
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)-- 1993-present
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC)-- 1993-present
Rep. Cleo Fields (D-LA)-- 1993-96
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)--1993-present
Rep. Earl Hilliard (D-AL)--1993-present
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX)-- 1993-present
Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA)-- 1993-present
Rep. Mel Reynolds (D-IL)-- 1993-95
Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL)-- 1993-present
Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA)-- 1993-present
Rep. Walter Tucker (D-CA)--1993-95
Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC)-- 1993-present
Rep. Albert Wynn (D-MD)-- 1993-present
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)-- 1993-present
Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA)-- 1995-present
Delegate Victor O. Frazer (D-VI)--1995-96
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)-- 1995-present
Rep. Julius Caesar Watts (R-OK)-- 1995-present
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)-- 1995-present
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)-- 1996-present
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD)-- 1996-present
Rep. Julia Carson (D-IN)-- 1997-present
Delegate Donna Christian-Christensen (D-VI)-- 1997-present
Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL)-- 1997-present
Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN)-- 1997-present
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI)-- 1997present-
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)-- 1998-present
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)-- 1998-present
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH)-- 1999-present
Rep. William Clay, Jr. (D-MO)-- 2001-present

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