Alain LeRoy Locke
In 1907 Alain Locke became the first African American Rhodes Scholar. A philosopher trained at Harvard and Oxford, he chaired the philosophy department at Howard University for four decades. His 1925 anthology The New Negro announced the Harlem Renaissance and made Locke its intellectual midwife, championing the arts as a strategy for Black cultural citizenship and elevating writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to a national audience.
“The Negro today wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings.”
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Alain LeRoy Locke
In 1907 Alain Locke became the first African American Rhodes Scholar. A philosopher trained at Harvard and Oxford, he chaired the philosophy department at Howard University for four decades. His 1925 anthology The New Negro announced the Harlem Renaissance and made Locke its intellectual midwife, championing the arts as a strategy for Black cultural citizenship and elevating writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to a national audience.
“The Negro today wishes to be known for what he is, even in his faults and shortcomings.”
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