At freedom's door : African American founding fathers and lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina

At freedom's door : African American founding fathers and lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina / edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Jr. ; with an introduction by Eric Foner.

Other author/creator	Underwood, James L.
Other author/creator	Burke, William Lewis.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2000.
Description	xxiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	African Americans--South Carolina --Politics and government --19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina. African American leadership--South Carolina --History --19th century. African American judges--South Carolina --History --19th century. African American lawyers--South Carolina --History --19th century. South Carolina--Politics and government --1865-1950. South Carolina--Race relations.

Contents	African American founding fathers : the making of the South Carolina Constitution of 1868 / James Lowell Underwood -- To vindicate the cause of the downtrodden : Associate Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright and the Reconstruction in South Carolina Richard Gergel and Belinda Gergel -- The Reconstruction of Justice Jonathan Jasper Wright / J. Clay Smith, Jr. -- The radical law school : the University of South Carolina School of Law and its African American graduates, 1873-1877 / W. Lewis Burke, Jr. -- The African American Bar in South Carolina, 1877-1915 / John Oldfield -- Richard Theodore Greener and the African American individual in a black and white world / Michael Robert Mounter -- South Carolina's black elected officials during Reconstruction / Eric Foner.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	00008951
ISBN	1570033579 (cloth)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.93.S7 A8 2000	✔ Available	Place Hold