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William Sanders Scarborough is the president of the AME-founded Black Wilberforce University in the early decades of the 20th century. He exemplifies the idea of the talented tenth. Born into slavery, after the end of the American Civil War he becomes a shoemaker and then studies at the prestigious—and white—Oberlin College where he majors in classics. His academic success grants him access to prestigious and then all-white organizations like the American Philological Society. At Wilberforce, Scarborough drills the values of the talented tenth into his students, including Ossian Sweet.
William Sanders Scarborough Quotes in Arc of Justice
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Neighborhoods and businesses weren’t the only places where Negroes were increasingly unwelcome: at Scarborough’s beloved Oberlin, there was talk of black and white students taking their Bible studies in separate classes. None of this segregation had the sanction of law—state civil rights statutes remained on the books—and it wasn’t consistently applied: it was a patchwork of practices differing from place to place and even street to street. But for colored people, the trend was frighteningly familiar.
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William Sanders Scarborough Quotes in Arc of Justice
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Chapter 3
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Neighborhoods and businesses weren’t the only places where Negroes were increasingly unwelcome: at Scarborough’s beloved Oberlin, there was talk of black and white students taking their Bible studies in separate classes. None of this segregation had the sanction of law—state civil rights statutes remained on the books—and it wasn’t consistently applied: it was a patchwork of practices differing from place to place and even street to street. But for colored people, the trend was frighteningly familiar.
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