Pinchback
Americannoun
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After being educated in Ohio and working on gambling boats, Pinchback returned to the South during the Civil War, serving as an officer in the United States Colored Troops.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
Pinchback, the Black Louisiana governor elected to the U.S.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2022
Pinchback, Stell and others helped Bell push forward with the scholarship fund — to offer financial assistance to high schoolers, yes, but also as a way to keep teaching young people about her son.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021
“We were all his aunties,” said Bernadette Pinchback, a retired manager for the San Bernardino Superintendent of Schools who sits on the scholarship fund’s board of directors.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2021
The career of Pinchback sheds additional light upon this period.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 by Various
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