Alain L. Locke

DOMO PHILLIPS

AN AMERICAN WRITER , PHILOSOPHER , EDUCATOR , AND A PATRON OF THE ARTS

September , 13 1886

June , 9 1954

Leader and chief interpreter of the Harlem Renaissance

Best known for his writings on and about the renaissance

G RADUAT E D FRO M HARVARD UN I VE RSI T Y (19 07 )

F I RST B LAC K RHO DE S SC HO LAR ST UDI E D AT OXFO RD AND T HE U NI VE RSI T Y O F

B E RL I NE ARNE D A PHD FRO M HARVARD (1 918 )

TAUG HT AT HO WARD UNI VE RSI T Y

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Locke promoted African American artists, writers, and musicians, encouraging them to look to Africa as an inspiration for their works .

W . E . B Du Bois Carter Woodson

SURVEY GRAPHIC -1925

THE NEW NEGRO -1925

His philosophy of the New Negro was grounded in the concept of race-building

Editor, The New Negro: An Interpretation, A. & C. Boni, 1925. Editor with Montgomery Gregory, Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama, Harper, 1927. Editor, Four Negro Poets, Simon & Schuster, 1927. A Decade of Negro Self-Expression, 1928. The Negro in America, American Library Association, 1933. Frederick Douglass: A Biography of Anti-Slavery, 1935. The Negro and His Music, Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. Negro Art: Past and Present, Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. Editor, The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art, Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. Editor with Bernhard J. Stern, When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Culture Contacts, Committee on Workshops, Progressive Education Association, 1942. Le Role du Negre dans la Culture des Ameriques, Impr. de l'Etat, 1943.

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Locke Was Gay