January 20, 2005

Pioneering work in black classicism recognized

Michele Valerie Ronnick's photo exhibition titled \"2 Black Classicists\" has been touring the country since 2003 and will travel to several national universities this year. Her book The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926): An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship will be published this spring. Endorsed by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this account begins with Scarborough's birth as a slave in Macon, Georgia and narrates the rise of his career as a public intellectual and the first professional classicist of African descent.

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