Pinchback
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Pinchback was born in Georgia to a formerly enslaved woman and her former enslaver.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2023
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 Mustangs let a fourth-quarter lead slip away in a 69-64 loss to Sherwood in the Brad Pinchback Holiday Tournament title game.
From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2017
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback had already made himself known by his efforts to recruit soldiers for the Louisiana Native Guards; by his stringent demands for the rights of the colored man on all occasions.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
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