Alain LeRoy Locke

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Full Name: Alain LeRoy Locke
September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954
Notable: Scholar
Nationality: American

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Alain LeRoy Locke was a gifted scholar, philosopher, and the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard and became the first African-American Rhodes Scholar studying abroad at Oxford University and the University of Berlin. Locke later became a professor of philosophy at Howard University and helped to promote the work of many of the leading artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

Bibliography

• “Alain LeRoy Locke.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 16 Apr. 2019, www.biography.com/people/alain-leroy-locke-37962.
• Watson, Elwood. “Alain Locke (1886-1954) • BlackPast.” BlackPast, 18 Feb. 2019, blackpast.org/aah/locke-alain-1886-1954.

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