- Creator
- Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926
- Physical description
- 8 encapsulated letters
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], William Sanders Scarborough letters received, , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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William Sanders Scarborough (1854?-1926) was a renowned philologist and the President of Wilberforce University from 1908 to 1920. Scarborough was appointed professor of Latin and Greek at Wilberforce in 1876. In 1892 he was dismissed due to the prevailing sentiment that the classics had become irrelevant. Re-appointed and promoted to vice-president in 1897 Scarborough served the university until he was forced to retire in 1920. The William Sanders Scarborough letter collection consists of eight letters: from Frederick Douglass (1894); W.E.B. DuBois (1921); and Booker T. Washington (1902-1909). The letter from Douglass extends his apologies for being unable to attend commencement at Wilberforce. The two letters from DuBois relate to the second Pan-African Congress to be held in 1921 and discusses when and where the conference was to be held. The five letters from Washington are general in nature, although one seems to deal with a disagreement they had.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Maya Angelou, 1992
Key terms
Names
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
- Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Subjects
- African American college presidents -- United States
- African American college teachers -- United States
- African Americans -- History
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor