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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:44:17 +0200
Subject: Re: 19C black classicists
From: Joseph Reisdoerfer <joseph.reisdoerfer@ci.rech.lu>
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on 2000/10/14 2:34, David Lupher at dlupher@ups.edu scripsit:

> Does anyone know of studies of 19th century black American
> classicists?
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> I attended a very interesting talk the other day by a non-
> classical visitor who alluded to a talk given at the APA
> meeting in 1892 by a black classicist named Scarborough.
> Scarborough's talk was on the chronology of Plato's
> dialogues.  It appears that both he and others regarded
> his presentation in the Jefferson-designed library of the
> U. of Virginia as something of a breakthrough in late 19C
> race relations.  Scarborough, who taught at Wilberforce
> College (a black school??), was also the author of a
> Greek grammar.  =8A
> David Lupher
> Classics Dept.
> Univ. of Puget Sound


At the Fourth Meeting of the International Society for the Classical
Tradition (Tuebingen, 29 July - 2 August, 1998) Michele Valerie Ronnick rea=
d
an interesting paper on this issue:
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Michele Valerie Ronnick, Department of Classics, Greek, and Latin, Wayne
State University, Detroit, MI, USA
    =B3The Place of Greek and Latin in the Afro-American College Curriculum
from Delany to Du Bois=B2

JR


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