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Title:

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.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xxiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

African Americans--South Carolina--Politics and government--19th century.
Reconstruction--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.

Other Authors:

Underwood, James L. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82211855
Burke, William Lewis. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90719472

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9781570033575
1570033579

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43836349

LCCN:

00008951

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)