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At Freedom's Door African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina
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Bringing into focus a legacy not fully recognized, the contributors collectively demonstrate the legal acumen displayed by prominent African Americans and the impact these individuals had on the en...
Bringing into focus a legacy not fully recognized, the contributors collectively demonstrate the legal acumen displayed by prominent African Americans and the impact these individuals had on the enactment of substantial constitutional reforms--many of which, though abandoned after Reconstruction, would be resurrected in the twentieth century.
Details
- Creator
- edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Jr. ; introduction by Eric Foner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Columbia [S.C.] : University of South Carolina Press, 2005
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1570033579, 9781570035869, 9781643362359, 1643362356, 1570035865, 9781570033575
- OCLC
- on1243546918, on1241731411
- 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
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 -- Race relations.