Alain LeRoy Locke
American philosopher and writer (1885-1954) · United States · Academics · Died at 68
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Something wrong?Alain LeRoy Locke 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. He is frequently included in listings of influential African Americans.
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Alain LeRoy Locke 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. He is frequently included in listings of influential African Americans. On March 19, 1968, 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."
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