{"id":54614,"date":"2017-07-23T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54614"},"modified":"2017-07-23T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T16:01:14","slug":"usc-to-erect-statue-of-first-african-american-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54614","title":{"rendered":"USC to erect statue of first African-American professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

USC to erect statue of first African-American professor<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The State<\/a>
\n2017-01-29<\/p>\n

Avery G. Wilks<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA portrait of Richard T. Greener<\/a> on display at USC. Larry Lebby<\/strong> Larry Lebby<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

COLUMBIA<\/a> \u2014 Richard T. Greener<\/a> was little remembered in Columbia<\/a> for almost 150 years.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2012, Greener\u2019s law degree and law license were found in a Chicago<\/a> house that was being demolished. And Greener and the University of South Carolina were reunited.<\/p>\n

Monday, USC will celebrate Greener, its first African-American professor.<\/p>\n

And, next fall, Greener, who taught classics, math and constitutional history at USC from 1873-77, will become the first historical figure to be immortalized with a statue on USC\u2019s downtown Columbia campus…<\/p>\n