The New Negro: Paperback

ISBN-10
ISBN-13: 9798522887216
Series: The New Negro
Pages: 443
Language: English
Published: 2021-06-18
Author: Alain Locke

Description

The New Negro is the title of the Alain Locke's essay inside the anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature "The New Negro: An Interpretation". Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 - June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect --the acknowledged "Dean"-- of the Harlem Renaissance. He is frequently included in listings of influential African Americans. On March 19, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."