Whitefield J. McKinlay

Whitefield J. McKinlay (September 15, 1852 – December 14, 1941) was a teacher, state legislator, and real estate businessman who lived in Charleston, South Carolina and then Washington D.C.[1] The Library of Congress has a glass plate negative portrait of him.

[6] He studied at Avery Institute, West Point, Iowa College and the University of South Carolina.

His years at the University of South Carolina during the Reconstruction era when it was opened up to African Americans ended when Democrats regained control.

[7][8] He was elected to serve in South Carolina's 1868 legislature along with numerous other African Americans and Republicans.

[8] Washington D.C. became less inclusive in the years after their arrival as Democrats held power and Jim Crow era segregation took hold.