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Sep 9, 2024 · His many works include Four Negro Poets (1927), Frederick Douglass, a Biography of Anti-Slavery (1935), Negro Art—Past and Present (1936), and The Negro and His Music (1936). He left unfinished materials for a definitive study of the contributions of blacks to American culture.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Locke wrote from Oxford in 1910 that the "primary aim and obligation" of a Rhodes Scholar "is to acquire at Oxford and abroad generally a liberal education , and to continue subsequently the Rhodes mission [of international understanding] throughout life and in his own country.
Alain LeRoy Locke has 28 books on Goodreads with 6577 ratings. Alain LeRoy Locke’s most popular book is The New Negro.
Mar 23, 2012 · Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and art.
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]
- Alain LeRoy Locke
- 1925
May 14, 2018 · Jeffrey C. Stewart’s new biography bears the perhaps inevitable title “ The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.” But the title makes a point: the New Negro, that lively protagonist...
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Philosopher, writer, and principal theorist of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Philadelphia, Alain LeRoy Locke graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1907. That year, he was the first African American to be awarded a Rhodes scholarship.
