For more about the life Richard T. Greener, see Michael Mounter’s essay "Richard Theodore Greener and the African American Individual in a Black and White World," in James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, eds., At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), 130-165.

For more on the University of South Carolina during Reconstruction, see the following: Daniel Walker Hollis, The University of South Carolina , vol. 2, College to University (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1956), Pamela M. White, "‘Free and Open’: The Radical University of South Carolina, 1873-1877," (M.A. Thesis, University of South Carolina, 1975) and W. Lewis Burke, Jr., "The Radical Law School: The University of South Carolina School of Law and Its African-American Graduates, 1873-1877," in James Lowell Underwood and W. Lewis Burke, eds., At Freedom’s Door: African American Founding Fathers and Lawyers in Reconstruction South Carolina (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000), 90-115.

For more on the Washington-Du Bois split, see August Meier, Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1964), and the two monumental biographies of both men. Louis T. Harlan’s 2-volume biography is the essential work on Washington. See Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975) and Booker T. Washington: the Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). David Levering Lewis’ Pulitzer Prize-winning, 2-volume biography is the standard work on W.E.B. Du Bois. See W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (New York, Henry Holt, 1993), and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (New York: Henry Holt, 2000).

Acknowledgments: The University of South Carolina Bicentennial Committee; Trustus Theatre, Columbia; The University of South Carolina Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance; Institute for Southern Studies; University Archives and the University Libraries; the Harvard University Library; and Drs. Bobby J. Donaldson; Harry Lesesne; Walter Edgar and Michael Mounter.