John Randolph Pinkett Jr.
In 1913, he and Flaxie got married in August and welcomed John Pinkett Jr. in April of 1914.
John Randolph PInkett Jr.
In 1931
17 year old John Pinkett Jr,. was at the center of the first storm around residential segregation at the university of Minnesota.
After his first night in the dorms, President Lotus D. Coffman came to discuss the student’s future there. Pinkett left the next day under pressure to move into the Phyllis Wheatley House, an African American settlement house in North Minneapolis. Fortunately, there was precedent set by the admittance of
Frances Mary McHie. AKA McHie- Raines wanted to become a social worker mainly due to her exposure to a local activist and businesswoman W. Gertrude Brown. After high school, she attempted to enroll at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing. After being turned down because she was Black, Minnesota senator Sylvanus A. "S.A." Stockwell and Mrs. Brown brought the issues and young Frances before the Minnesota State Legislature.
It was here in 1929 where she was immediately admitted to the school and soon became the first Black woman to graduate from the school in 1932. That same year she received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University's school of Education.
W. Gertrude Brown and Frances welcomed him at the Phyllis Wheatley Home.
Despite his father’s attempt to intervene, John was listed as the representative of the Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha of Howard University during the Alpha’’s 25th Convention in New Orleans in 1937.
After this event, Pinkett returned to the greater Washington, D.C. area. He began an all-Black flight school called the Cloud Club because aspiring African American pilots were denied flight instruction elsewhere.
When the war began, he served as a flight instructor in Alabama, making him a Tuskegee airman.
Pinkett went on to achieve the rank of Captain in the Air Force.
He found a second career helping to run the family-owned John R. Pinkett, Inc. real estate business. Pinkett worked to integrate upper-income homes in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods.
Note: He was either Pearl Bailey's 3rd or 4th husband and that's all you see on this page about that. :0.