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William Sanders Scarborough
William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 - September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African-American classical scholar. Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920 after having been born into slavery. He wrote a popular university textbook in Classical Greek that was widely used in the 19th century.
==Early life and career==
Scarborough was born in Macon, Georgia, in 1852 to a free railway employee and an enslaved mother. He inherited his mother's status. Despite prohibitions against educating slaves, he was educated surreptitiously and had mastered the three R's, geography and grammar by the age of 10. He became an apprentice shoemaker and served as the secretary of a prominent black association at an early age due to his level of education.
After the end of the American Civil War, he was able to complete his education at Lewis High School in Macon before attending Atlanta University in 1869 for a couple of years. Scarborough completed his degree at Oberlin College graduating in 1875. He then returned as a teacher in classical languages to Lewis High School, where he met his future wife Sarah Bierce, who was the Principal. Arsonists torched the Lewis High School in 1876 and the local fire brigade let it burn to the ground. Scarborough briefly became Principal of the Payne Institute in Cokesbury, South Carolina, but found the racial environment in South Carolina even less hospitable than Georgia. He then returned to Oberlin to complete a Master's degree.
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