Photo: Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, c. 1875. Credit: Mathew Brady & Levin Corbin Handy; U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Pinckney Pinchback: The Nation’s First African American Governor

By Tony Pettinato on December 9, 2016

An article about Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback becoming the nation’s first African American governor on 9 December 1872... (Read More)

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