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

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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

University of South Carolina Press, c2000

  • : cloth

Available at  / 3 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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

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This work seeks to rescue from obscurity the identities and contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild South Carolina after the Civil War. It demonstrates the legal acumen displayed by prominent African Americans and their impact on the enactment of substantial constitutional reforms.

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