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Despite his prominence as a scholar, Scarborough suffered the effects of discrimination throughout his career.

In 1909 when he had just become the President of Wilberforce, he was barred from attending an American Philological Association meeting in Baltimore, Maryland because the hotel refused to serve dinner if he was present and was threatening to sue for breach of contract if the Association cancelled the Conference.

The paper that he was due to read at the conference was read by someone else.

However, in 1892, Scarborough gave a lecture on Plato at the University of Virginia with pictures of Jefferson Davis and other confederate leaders on the walls and no other African Americans allowed into the room except as servants.