Richard Theodore Greener research collection, ca. 1870-2001.

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Richard Theodore Greener research collection, ca. 1870-2001.

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Bibliography, correspondence, a dissertation, and other research materials re Richard Theodore Greener, the first African American to graduate from Harvard and the first to work as a professor, 1874-1877, at the University of South Carolina during Reconstruction; also includes script of theatrical work imaging a fictionalized return visit by Greener to USC. Letter, 22 Feb. 2001, from Maude T. Jenkins, re Richard Greener items she had sent to Greener scholar Michael Mounter; Mounter's "Bibliography of Materials for Richard Theodore Greener Dissertation Project"; and copy of John H. Roper's 1973 University of North Carolina thesis, "The Radical Mission: The University of South Carolina in Reconstruction." Consisting of several revisions of scripts for Jon Tuttle's short drama, "The White Problem," ca. Nov. 2000 - Apr. 2001, accompanied by copies of e-mail messages from the playwright regarding changes made in various drafts; copies of e-mail messages, 2000-2001, exchanged between Jeffrey Mulvey and John Tuttle regarding the production of the play; and playbill, 5-8 Apr. 2001, from University of South Carolina production of "The White Problem."

0.33 linear ft.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7586793

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844-1922

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Richard Theodore Greener (January 30, 1844 – May 2, 1922) was the first African American graduate of Harvard College and went on to become the dean of the Howard University School of Law. Richard Greener was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844 and moved with his mother to Boston when he was approximately nine years old. He quit school in his mid-teens to earn money for his family, but one of his employers, Franklin B. Sanborn, helped him to enroll in preparatory school (Oberlin Academ...

Tuttle, Jon

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Jenkins, Maude T.

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Mounter, Michael Robert.

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Roper, John H.

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South Carolina College

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