Sections Search Campus Life Black Classics Scholars, an Untold Story Portraits of pioneering intellectuals on exhibit at Howard Thurman Center 01.15.2016 By The heritage of black classics scholars has been so little studied that BU classicist Stephen Scully says he was unaware of their contributions until arranging an exhibition on the topic. Photo by Dana J. Quigley The face in the black-and-white photo, with its wraparound graying sideburns and sober demeanor, evokes a retired Civil War general. William Sanders Scarborough couldn’t have been further from that: an African American, he was born a slave in 1852 Georgia. But he would achieve something perhaps even more extraordinary than a general’s rank. In an era when many thought blacks unfit for higher education, Scarborough would become
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