I don’t have any source links or anything for this particular issue. However, I did end up, reaching out to the black lawyers association in South Carolina about this so I will update if and when they get back to me with Their statement…
I don’t have any source links or anything for this particular issue. However, I did end up, reaching out to the black lawyers association in South Carolina about this so I will update if and when they get back to me with Their statement…
I actually spent a little bit of time looking this up. All of ten minutes.
The bar became mandatory in SC in (if I am interpreting this correctly) 1968 - https://web.archive.org/web/20090828061736/http://www.scbar.org/about_us/
One of the first black lawyers was eventually a judge in SC, 1873 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Bolling_Allen
https://thecitycharleston.com/2023/02/22/charleston-was-home-to-the-souths-first-black-law-firm/
58, not 68. This is what I found: https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/legal-education/