More than three decades ago, history was made when Douglas Wilder became the first elected Black governor, not just in Virginia but in the entire United States.

It stands on Scott’s Bluff on the campus of Southern University in Baton Rouge and proudly proclaims, “In memory of P.B.S. Pinchback, the first African American governor in U.S. history.

Moore made history history himself, as the state’s first Black governor and one of only six African American men to ever serve as governor of a state. (A Black woman has never been governor.) ...

Pinckney B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana becomes the first African American state governor. Approximately 2,000 African Americans held public office during the twelve years following the Civil War.

Most notably, the first woman governor of the United States was elected to office ... Grace Raymond Hebard, and the first African American Wyoming legislator, Harriet Byrd. AHC holdings also include ...

But in the words of Virginia’s most prominent Black politician, Doug Wilder, the nation’s first elective African American governor and who, in 2004, became Richmond’s first popularly elected ...