Talk:P. B. S. Pinchback

message: The Picture shown is of Homer Plessy. Please change.
The picture is the same that the State of Louisiana has posted on its Governor's web site for Governor PBS Pinchback. It is also very similar to the brass bust that stands in the Louisiana State Capitol Building.
The state site page is
http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/tabid/383/Default.aspx
The bronze bust can be seen on my web pages at
http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Governors/Pinchback,%20Pickney%20Benton%20Stewart/
I see that Google has the same picture that the State of Louisiana uses for Pinchback posted as a picture of Homer Plessy.
I don't have resolution, just pointing out a few things. It wouldn't be the first time that the state archives was wrong.
Cems1gauthier (talk) 02:44, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Picture 

message: A quick google for pinchback 1872 1873 shows he served as governor until this date, not January 9, according to the wiki article previously.
http://www.hanford.gov/doe/black/Politics.cfm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/reference/articles/p_b_s_pinchback.html
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/recon/chron.html
TransUtopian 21:35, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  January 13, 1873 

message: I am not entirely familiar with American English, and I understand this could be a bit neuralgic, but I am wondering if, given a link to African American and the definition found therein, there should also be a link to European American, since 3 out of 4 of the man's grandparents were apparently English. This is not to diminish the importance of the man, or of his grandparent of African descent, but as a non-American one wonders at this nomenclature. Even the Nuremberg Race Laws required 3 or 4 grandparents of a certain ethnic group before you were simply labelled as one.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:44, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, in the case of P.B.S. Pinchback, it's pretty clear he was perceived and characterized by the people of his time and place (the Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction U.S.) as "black", and was therefore seen as "that colored man who claims to be governor of Louisiana" (probably stated using much harsher language). It's not an issue of "biology" but of the social construct of race, and in the post-Civil War and Jim Crow Era American South the one-drop rule was widely adopted--not just one-fourth "African blood" but as little as one-sixteenth or one-thirty-second African ancestry (or indeed, any known African or non-European ancestry at all) was sufficient to deem a person to be legally speaking "colored" rather than "white". 139.76.64.67 (talk) 04:28, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ancestry terminology 

message: Why does the photo for P.B.S. Pinchback look exactly like the one for Homer Plessy? Twins? Coincidence? Or is it a mistake? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hzia124 (talk • contribs) 17:15, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow. You are right. This is a historic mistake made by someone in Louisiana because the picture of Homer Plessy has been misidentified for decades. Here is what appears to be an accurate picture:
http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1239433&t=w
I'm going to take the picture down.
Awbeal (talk) 20:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

text: I believe you have it backwards. The photo is indeed of Pinchback and is well documented; for some reason it is sometimes misidentified on the internet as Plessy. -- Infrogmation (talk) 22:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  As far as I can tell (at least from a search a year or two ago), there don't seem to be any verified photos of Plessy on the internet. And the Times-Picayune was unable to locate one for their history article about the case not long ago. (I wonder if contacting the family might be helpful.) -- Infrogmation (talk) 22:39, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong photo? 

message: In the first paragraph of Marriage and Family, his name is STEWART and then Pinchback in the last sentence.
I realize the name change was explained in an earlier section, but at first I thought the reference was a mistake, putting his mother with his father until her death!
Since I couldn't think of a non-repetitive way to "fix" this, I am hoping someone else will. JeanEva Rose (talk) 19:28, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation requested 

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message: Sir or Madame,
Please look into the photo has been uploaded for Governor Pinchback.  It appears to be a photo of Homer Plessy, not of Governor Pinchback.
Patrick  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.187.116.11 (talk) 20:24, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pinchback Photo 

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message: I think Pinchback's participation in the Comite des Citoyens is wrong.  According to R.L.Desdune's book, Our People and Our History, Aristide Mary initiated the Comite and it was composed of 18 members: Esteves, Antoine, Christophe, Johnson, Bonseigneur, Auguste, RL Desdunes (author of the book mentioned above), Labat, Guirenovich, Martinet, Joubert, Piron, Luscy< Williams, Chevalier, Mansion, Kennedy and Baque.  I've seen in other references that Pinchback was a member but Desdunes was an original source.  If Pinchback had been a member, Desdunes would have mentioned him.  In 1892 Pinchback moved to Washington permanently and the Comite's work really started in 1892.73.118.179.203 (talk) 17:32, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comite des Citoyens 

message: In the "political career" section the following thought seems incomplete: "...though he allowed students from Straight University...." Allowed them to do what? Billfalls (talk) 23:08, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allowed what?