| Summary: | "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." "This volume is the first collection of Scarborough's published writings, introduced by classicist Michele Valerie Ronnick. Compiling Scarborough's academic work in addition to his writings on matters ranging from the education of blacks to politics, policy issues, travel narratives, and even black farming, the collection includes pieces of journalism, speeches, and book reviews that reveal a man who defied the odds of his time by his passionate commitment to the pursuit of knowledge."--Publisher description.
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