William Lewis Burke Jr. (born 1948)[1] is an American historian, lawyer, academic, editor, and author.
He is a distinguished professor emeritus at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at University of South Carolina (USC).
He has authored books on law, history, race relations, and African Americans.
[3][4][5] Burke's 2017 book, All for Civil Rights: African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968 is about African American lawyers in South Carolina from the Reconstruction era until 1968.
[7] Burke was a professor at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at University of South Carolina (USC) from 1982 to 2015;[2] a chairman for the clinical legal studies department at USC from 2002 to 2015; and was an affiliate faculty for the African American studies department at USC.[3][when?]