Alain Locke

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Alain Locke

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).

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