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: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2000.

ISBN: 1570033579 (cloth)

Description: xxiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: 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.