Alain Leroy Locke, born in Philadelphia in the late 1880s, is heralded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" for his publication in 1925 of "The New Negro" — an anthology of poems, essays, plays, ...
EVERYONE KNEW something was happening in the 10 square blocks of what was Harlem in 1925, something unique in American history. It took Alain Leroy Locke, the nation’s first black Rhodes scholar, to ...