lewis burke. mr. burke: good morning. as aaron said, my work is being drawn from a book that will be published hopefully next year by the university of georgia press. the title of the book is all for civil rights, african-american lawyers in south carolina, 1868 to 1968. in nd 168 black lawyers that century. 69 of those lawyers were admitted in that nine-year period that was formal reconstruction in south carolina. almost 25% of the lawyers admitted by the south carolina supreme court during reconstruction were african-americans. imagine the states where it had been against the law for african-american slaves to learn to read and write, they could not testify in court against a white person, they could never testify under oath. it was here in this remarkable period, a quarter of the bar was african-american. these men came from the ranks of the union army, the american missionary association and the friedman's bureau agents, at least initially. jonathan jasper wright, who read law in pennsylvania, came first, as a mission