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 Underwood, James L.
Other author Burke, William Lewis.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxxiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00008951
ISBN1570033579 (cloth)