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Special Millennium issue

Volume 115 - Issue 7 - December 2000
PMLA Volume 115 - Issue 7 - Special Millennium issue
Contents

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Introduction

Other

Selections from Presidential Addresses

Research Article

  • William Sanders Scarborough: The First African American Member of the Modern Language Association

  • Michele Valerie Ronnick
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2020, pp. 1787-1796

  • Our interest in learning about original or inaugural achievements in every field of endeavor is perennial. When a member of a traditionally disenfranchised group is an innovator, acknowledgment of the person's accomplishment is important to the well-being of the group, especially if it has been omitted from the record. Thus, it is right that we give some attention to the life of William Sanders Scarborough (1852-1926), the first professional scholar of classical studies of African American heritage and the first African American member of the MLA. In his era he rose to fame in the vanguard of the proponents of liberal arts education, but his career has been neglected since then (Ronnick, “Scarborough” [1997]).

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