William Sanders Scarborough papers, 1870-1928.

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William Sanders Scarborough papers, 1870-1928.

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Chiefly manuscripts and typescripts of Scarborough's writings, including journals, lectures, and account book. Titles include The Greeks and suicide; The Empire of discontent; Study of the American Negro; Bellerophon's letters; Notes on Thucydides, and Some Negro play songs; together with biographical data; news clippings about him; correspondence (1870-1926) pertaining to Blacks in war, education, and his scholarly pursuits; family correspondence (1918-1928) mostly pertaining to the death of his wife; Sarah Scarborough's journal (1901-1911) detailing her sailing voyages; issues of Ohio History, containing articles about Scarborough; pamphlets, scrapbooks; citations; invitations; photographs; tickets; report to the Executive Commitee of Wilberforce University (1908); and Black periodicals and serials.

6 linear ft.

Wilberforce University, Stokes Library

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Wilberforce University, Stokes Library

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Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926

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William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926), African American author, educator, and lecturer, was born a slave on February 16, 1852, in Macon, Georgia. His mother Frances Gwynn Scarborough was a slave, although his father Jeremiah had been freed by his master in 1846. Despite state restrictions, W.S. Scarborough learned to read and write. In 1869 following emancipation, he entered Atlanta University and later attended Oberlin College in Ohio. In 1875 he graduated and returned to the South to teach, ...

Wilberforce University

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Wilberforce University has its beginnings in a 28 Sept. 1853 meeting, during which the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church agreed to fund a coeducational college for African-American people of the state to be called Ohio African University and to be located in Tawas Springs, Ohio. Chartered as Wilberforce University in 1856, enrollment reached 207 people, and second year collegiate instruction was offered. Because of financial difficulties due to the Civil War (1861-1865), th...

Scarborough, Sarah C. Bierce

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