Pincney Benton Stewart Pinchback's Legacy

P.B.S. Pinchback, or Pincney Benton Stewart Pinchback was the U.S. Governor, was a Civil Rights Activist for African-Americans equality, and was a U.S. Representative. He was born on May 10, 1837 and died on December 21, 1921. He was born in Macon Georgia and his father was a slaveholder and his mother was a former slave of his father, and his mother was freed before he was born. His parents were of different races even though this wasn’t the social norm back then. This was called being “multiracial” and his life had it’s own set of challenges and problem that he had to face too. Being multiracial gave him a sense of both worlds, life of an African-American and life of a caucasian. He had four siblings. He married Nina Emily Hawthorne and they …show more content…
This is how his education got discontinued due to him getting a job and supporting his family through their harsh times. He was a cabin boy and worked long hours for little pay. This changed him. When he grew older he entered the military. He was fighting on the Union’s behalf during the Civil War. Once the Civil War finally ended, he entered the field of politics. After helping write Louisiana’s constitution and declaring himself a republican, he was the governor of the U.S. state for a little over a month while Henry C. Warmth was fighting impeachment. Before he was the U.S. governor, he was the Louisiana governor. This was very ironic because Louisiana was in the south, and since he was an African-American, the people wouldn’t treat him well. Then he became the very first African-American U.S. governor. After everything with Henry C. Warmth was settled out, he decided he wanted to run for a seat in Congress. While he was making history a group called the Ku Klux Klan were terrorizing African-Americans when he was trying to win a seat in Congress which he eventually lost because of them. This organization believed in white supremacy and hated that