The selected writings of William Sanders Scarborough : Black classicist and race leader
"The first professional classicist of African-American descent has been long overlooked in modern analyses concerning the education and the uplift of black Americans. For years the discourse has been presented as a debate carried on almost bilaterally between W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Now restored to us through Michele Valerie Ronnick's collection of his published works, we can learn how this contemporary of Washington and precursor to Du Bois understood the African American struggle through his extensive political writings." "Born a slave in Macon, Georgia, and rising to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio, his accomplishments directly challenged those who maintained ideas about the intellectual inferiority of his race. Scarborough believed passionately that classical education was a critical component of African American advancement."
Print Book, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, New York, 2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
pages cm
9780195309621, 0195309626
225909466