Clementa Carlos "Clem"
Pinckney (July 30, 1973 – June 17, 2015) was an American politician and pastor who served as a
Democratic member of the
South Carolina Senate
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, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his death in 2015. He was previously a member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives
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Unlike many legislatures, seati ...
from 1997 through 2000.
Pinckney was born to a large family with six siblings in
Beaufort, South Carolina
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. He began preaching at church at age thirteen and was appointed pastor at age eighteen. He graduated from several universities, including
Allen University
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, and the
University of South Carolina. He was also educated at the
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (LTSS) is a theological seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and located in Columbia, South Carolina. It offers theological degrees. In 2012, it merged with Lenoir-Rhyne University, ...
, and the
Wesley Theological Seminary.
In 1996, Pinckney became the youngest African-American man elected to the
South Carolina General Assembly
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at the age of twenty-three. While serving in the Senate, Pinckney was an advocate for civil rights. He prominently supported
body cameras
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Body cameras have a range of uses and designs, of which the best-known use is as a part of poli ...
after the death of
Walter Scott
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, and gained controversy after holding a rally about his death. He also unsuccessfully proposed a bill that would display the
Pan-African flag
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at the
South Carolina State House
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.
Pinckney was also a senior pastor at
Mother Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston. In 2015, Pinckney was assassinated by white supremacist
Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and mass murderer convicted of perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. During a Bible study at Em ...
in
a racially motivated terrorist mass shooting at an evening Bible study at his church.
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delivered the eulogy and sang "
Amazing Grace
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" at Pinckney's funeral nine days later.
Early life and education
Clementa Carlos Pinckney was born on July 30, 1973 in
Beaufort, South Carolina
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. His mother, Theopia Stevenson Aikens (''
née
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'' Brooms; 1945–2005), was an early childhood development educator, and his father, John Pinckney, was an auto mechanic.
Pinckney had at least six brothers and sisters.
He began preaching at his church at age 13 and, by age 18, he was appointed pastor.
Pinckney's maternal family, the Stevensons, has many generations of pastors in the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
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(AMEC). His maternal great-grandfather, Reverend Lorenzo Stevenson, brought a lawsuit against the state's
Democratic Party to end unintegrated primaries. During the
Civil Rights Movement
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, Pinckney's maternal uncle, Reverend Levern Stevenson, worked with the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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(NAACP) to desegregate school buses, and sued
South Carolina Governor
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John C. West to create
single-member district
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s to help elect more blacks into the
South Carolina General Assembly
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.
Pinckney's paternal family are based in the
Beaufort, South Carolina
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area and may be descendants of slaves owned by
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
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, who was instrumental in framing the
United States Constitution
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and was part of the
Middleton-Rutledge-Pinckney family The Middleton-Rutledge-Pinckney family is a family of politicians from the United States.
*Henry Middleton 1717-1784, Delegate to the Continental Congress from South Carolina 1774, South Carolina State Senator 1778.
**Arthur Middleton 1742-1787, De ...
, a family that included many politicians. The
Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge is where the plantation was located.
Pinckney went to Jasper County High School,
[ where he was elected class president for two years.] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Allen University
Allen University is a private historically black university in Columbia, South Carolina. It has more than 600 students and still serves a predominantly Black constituency. The campus is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as All ...
in 1995 and went on to obtain a Master of Public Administration
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degree from the University of South Carolina in 1999. He then received a Master of Divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
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. Pinckney was a student at Wesley Theological Seminary pursuing a Doctor of Ministry The Doctor of Ministry (abbreviated DMin or D.Min.) is a professional doctorate, often including a research component, that may be earned by a minister of religion while concurrently engaged in some form of ministry. It is categorized as an advance ...
(D.Min.) degree at the time of his death.
Career
Religious career
Pinckney preached in Beaufort Beaufort may refer to:
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, Charleston, and Columbia
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. He became pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina
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, in 2010. As part of his work, Pinckney oversaw 17 churches in the area.
In his leadership position at Mother Emanuel, Pinckney followed in the footsteps of Reverend Richard H. Cain and other AME church leaders, continuing a tradition of religious leaders serving in political positions with a focus on political activism in service to his community. Pinckney said he felt a deep connection between serving his community in politics in complement to his ministry work. Historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African Ame ...
featured Pinckney in interviews for his award-winning PBS series '' The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.''
Pinckney was among several South Carolina pastors to hold rallies after the shooting of Walter Scott
On April 4, 2015, Walter Scott, a 50-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Michael Slager, a local police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina. Slager had stopped Scott for a non-functioning brake light. Slager was charged with murder ...
in 2015, attracting some local controversy.
Legislative career
Pinckney was first elected to the South Carolina General Assembly
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in 1996 at the age of 23, becoming the youngest African American
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elected as a South Carolina state legislator. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives
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Unlike many legislatures, seati ...
until being elected to the South Carolina Senate
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in 2000. Pinckney was a Democrat and was a member of the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus. Pinckney represented Allendale, Beaufort Beaufort may refer to:
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, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton
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, and Jasper
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Counties in South Carolina. At the time of his death, he was on the following Committees: Banking and Insurance, Corrections and Penology, Education, Finance, and Medical Affairs.
Body cameras
As a state senator, Pinckney pushed for laws to require police and other law enforcement officials to wear body cameras
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Body cameras have a range of uses and designs, of which the best-known use is as a part of poli ...
after Walter Scott
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, an unarmed black man, was shot eight times in the back by a police officer in North Charleston
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. In April 2015, Pinckney gave an impassioned speech on the topic at the South Carolina Senate
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, citing the fact that national news had come to North Charleston because of the video tape of the incident.
Pan-African flag
In 2001, Pinckney, along with senator Maggie Glover, proposed a bill for the Pan-African flag
The Pan-African flag (also known as the Afro-American flag, Black Liberation flag, UNIA flag, and various other names) is a tri-color flag consisting of three equal horizontal bands of (from top down) red, black, and green. The Universal Negr ...
to be displayed at the South Carolina State House
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. The bill planned for the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Committee to hang up the flag.
Murder and funeral
On the night of June 17, 2015, Pinckney was killed in the Charleston church shooting
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. He spent the earlier part of that day campaigning with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
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in Charleston. That evening, he led a Bible
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study and prayer session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
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, where he was senior pastor. The shooter, Dylann Roof
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and mass murderer convicted of perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. During a Bible study at Em ...
, specifically asked for Pinckney and later opened fire on the congregation, killing Pinckney and eight others. While the FBI investigated the mass shooting as a hate crime
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, many others considered the attack a racially motivated act of terrorism
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, and criticized law enforcement and the media for not labeling it as such.
On June 24, 2015, there was a public viewing of Pinckney's casket in the rotunda lobby of the State Capitol Senate Chamber where Pinckney served in the South Carolina legislature, and where his body lay in state. Public viewings were held at St. John AME Church in Ridgeland, South Carolina
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, and Mother Emanuel in Charleston, South Carolina
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, LargestCity = Charleston
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. A funeral was held on June 26, 2015, at the College of Charleston
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in TD Arena
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, which was filled up to maximum capacity, necessitating a viewing center with a video feed at the Charleston Museum
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. President Barack Obama
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, Michelle Obama
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, Vice President Joe Biden, and Jill Biden
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, among many other politicians and public figures, attended the funeral, with Obama giving the eulogy. During the eulogy, Obama sang the opening stanza of "Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779 with words written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both ...
".
Aftermath
As a result of the shooting, in July 2015, the South Carolina Legislature enacted legislation to take down the Confederate flag
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flying in front of the South Carolina State House
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and move it to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. The shooter had previously posed in front of and posted images of a similar flag on his website. Pinckney's widow attended the session during the final vote to thank her husband's colleagues for their support.
In June 2015, the family of Pinckney established the Clementa C. Pinckney Foundation to support poor families in the South Carolina Lowcountry
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region. Jennifer Pinckney, his wife, Senator Gerald Malloy, who served with Pinckney in the Senate, and Reverend Kylon Jerome Middleton, Ph.D., Pinckney's best friend, established the foundation in Pinckney's honor to support educational, health, pastoral training, and charitable causes. In July 2015, Mother Emanuel, in response to anonymous donations of more than $3 million, established The Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund, which was created to support education scholarship for church members, victims of the shooting and their extended families. The initial fund was overseen by Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr, historian and educator Henry Louis Gates Jr
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and investment banker William M. Lewis Jr.
In August 2015, the Charleston County School District
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decided to name new Charleston County middle school Simmons-Pinckney Middle School, in honor of both Pinckney and blacksmith Philip Simmons.
On August 8, 2019, the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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adopted a resolution to recognize Clementa C. Pinckney and the Emanuel 9 as martyrs on their liturgical calendar and declare June 17 as "a day of repentance in the ELCA for the martyrdom of the Emanuel 9." At the time of the shooting, Dylann Roof was a member of an ELCA congregation. The Rev. Clementa Pinckney was a graduate of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
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, a seminary of the ELCA.
Personal life
In 1999, Pinckney married Jennifer Pinckney (née Benjamin) in Augusta, Georgia
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. They met while he was at Allen University
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and she was at the University of South Carolina. The couple lived in Ridgeland, South Carolina
Ridgeland is a town in Jasper and Beaufort counties, South Carolina, United States. The population was 3,749 at the 2020 census, a 7.1% decrease from 2010. It has been the county seat of Jasper County since the county's formation in 1912. As def ...
with their two daughters, Eliana Yvette Pinckney and Malana Elise Pinckney. Pinckney was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved in ...
fraternity. Pinckney was named in honor of the baseball player Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (; August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates. After his early death, he was pos ...
of the Pittsburgh Pirates
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due to his mother's love of baseball. During his eulogy, multiple friends and family pronounced his first name as "Clemen-tay". Pinckney is the cousin of the businessman and conservative commentator Armstrong Williams
Armstrong Williams (born February 5, 1962) is an American political commentator, entrepreneur, author, and talk show host. Williams writes a nationally syndicated conservative newspaper column, has hosted a daily radio show, and hosts a nationa ...
.
Pinckney was buried in Marion, South Carolina
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at the St. James AME Cemetery.
See also
* List of assassinated American politicians
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There are 53 assassinated American politicians listed. The most common method of homicide w ...
References
External links
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at South Carolina Legislature
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Reverend Clementa Pinckney
at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church
The Honorable Reverend Clementa C. Pinckney Foundation
Reverend Pinckney Scholarship Fund
at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church
Lowcountry Ministries Fund
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