Alain Locke's "The New Negro"

Locke's landmark anthology announces and defines the Harlem Renaissance to a national audience.

Key figures

A free scan of the movement's defining anthology.

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

part of·Thread
The Harlem Renaissance
Locke's anthology gave the movement its name and manifesto.
led to (incoming)·Event
W.E.B. Du Bois founds The Crisis
The Crisis and Opportunity built the readership and contests that the Renaissance flowered from.

Locke's anthology gave the movement its name and manifesto.

The Crisis and Opportunity built the readership and contests that the Renaissance flowered from.