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WILLIAM

SANDERS

SCARBOROUGH

SCHOLARSHIP, THE NEGRO, RELIGION, AND POLITICS

by FRANCIS P. WEISENBURGER

During the years in which William Sanders Scarborough was professor and

then president at Wilberforce University, his scholarly activities in the field

of linguistics, his work and writings in the field of race relations, his con-

tributions in the areas of religious journalism and church organization, and

his varied public services were significant.* Each of these demands some

consideration.

As was previously pointed out, his textbook in elementary Greek was pub-

lished in 1881. In July of the next year, the American Philological Associa-

tion, meeting at Harvard University, elected him to membership.1 The death

of his father in October 1883 and his own serious illness, as well as a lack of

library facilities, impeded his research activities, but he was enabled to ob-

NOTES ARE ON PAGES 85-88