Alain Locke
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1885 - 1954
Occupation
Journalist, Academic
Description
Assistant professorship in English at Howard University and chair of the Department of Philosophy who was dismissed in 1925 when he began to teach a class in racial politics. Reinstated in 1928, and remained there until his retirement in 1953. Notable as the first African American to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. Considered a mentor and dean to many members of the Harlem Renaissance group of artists of the 1920s and 1930s. Editor of the influential anthology 'The New Negro' (1925).
