William Kauffman Scarborough is professor emeritus of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.
He was the Charles W.
Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor in the Humanities from 1996 to 1998.
He was an outspoken opponent of school integration and supporter of massive resistance, believing white people to be the "superior race" and black people to be "genetically inferior." He was a member of the Citizens' Councils.Scarborough was a featured interviewee in the Stanley Nelson Jr.
film Freedom Summer.
Scarborough spoke at the Citadel on the subject of the secession of South Carolina.