At freedom's door
Subtitle: African American founding fathers and lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina
By: edited by James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, Jr. ; with an introduction by Eric Foner.
Contributors: Underwood, James L.; Burke, William Lewis.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
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.
Description: "At Freedom's Door rescues from obscurity the identities, images, and long-term contributions of black leaders who helped to rebuild South Carolina after the Civil War. In seven essays, the contributors to the volume explore the role of African Americans in government and law during Reconstruction in the Palmetto State.

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