Joseph Rainey

Joseph Rainey

Joseph Hayne Rainey (21 Juni 1832 – 1 Agustus 1887) adalah seorang politikus Amerika Serikat. Ia adalah orang kulit hitam pertama yang menjabat dalam DPR Amerika Serikat dan orang kulit hitam kedua (setelah Hiram Revels) yang menjabat dalam Kongres Amerika Serikat.

Bacaan tambahan

• Packwood, Cyril Outerbridge (1977). Detour—Bermuda, Destination—U.S. House of Representatives: The Life of Joseph Hayne Rainey. Hamilton, Bermuda: Baxter's. 
• "Joseph Hayne Rainey", in Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007, Office of History & Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2008.; Holt, Thomas.
• "Rainey, Joseph Hayne", in Dictionary of American Negro Biography, edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston. New York: Norton and Co., 1982.

Pranala luar

• Congressional biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• "Connecticut Freedom Trail", Official Website
• Joseph Rainey, Dec. 19, 1873 speech about the Civil Rights Act under consideration, passed 1875, Neglected Voices, NYU School of Law
• Joseph Rainey, Picture History photos