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Alain Locke, Author Page

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From Wikipedia: "Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, and educator. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect—the acknowledged "Dean"—of the Harlem Renaissance.[2] 

"Locke was the guest editor of the March 1925 issue of the periodical Survey Graphic, for a special edition titled "Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro": about Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance, which helped educate white readers about its flourishing culture.[16] In December of that year, he expanded the issue into The New Negro, a collection of writings by him and other African Americans, which would become one of his best-known works. A landmark in black literature (later acclaimed as the "first national book" of African America),[17] it was an instant success. Locke contributed five essays: the "Foreword", "The New Negro", "Negro Youth Speaks", "The Negro Spirituals", and "The Legacy of Ancestral Arts". This book established his reputation as "a leading African-American literary critic and aesthete."

Contents of this path:

  1. "The New Negro" (Essay by Alain Locke) (1925)
  2. Alain Locke, "The New Negro: Introduction" (1925)
  3. "The New Negro: an Interpretation." Anthology Edited by Alain Locke (full text) (1925)
  4. Alain Locke, Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson, "An Autumn Love Cycle" (1928)
  5. Alain Locke, "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925)
  6. Countee Cullen, "The Wise (for Alain Locke)" (1925)