Wayne State University Press has just published the Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough: An American Journey From Slavery to Scholarship by Michelle Valerie Ronnick. The story is about one of black history\'s amazing unknown pioneers, a slave who, against all odds, rose to become the foremost black classical scholar, a major voice in the debate over the future of black America and, finally, president of Wilberforce University. Growing up in the 1970s, the author, Michele Ronnick took Latin in high school and it started her on a lifelong passion for the classics.