William Sanders Scarborough was one of the most remarkable -- and least known -- African Americans in American history. He began learning Greek and Latin while enslaved as a child. He survived Sherman’s burning of Atlanta. And he went on to become a classics scholar and a college president. But he had been forgotten until Michele Ronnick rediscovered him. She’s a professor of Greek and Latin at Wayne State University. Michigan Radio’s Jack Lessenberry spoke with her.
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