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Person · 1885–1954

Alain Locke

The "Dean of the Harlem Renaissance," whose 1925 anthology "The New Negro" defined the movement.

The philosopher of the [[harlem-renaissance]].

A Harvard PhD and the first Black Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke gathered the movement's writers and artists and articulated its philosophy of cultural self-definition.

The Harlem Renaissance

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  1. 1907
    Alain Locke, first Black Rhodes Scholar

    Becomes the first African American Rhodes Scholar; later the "Dean of the Harlem Renaissance."

  2. 1925
    Alain Locke's "The New Negro"

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

  3. March 1925
    The "Harlem" issue of Survey Graphic

    A special magazine issue edited by Alain Locke introduces "the New Negro" to white and Black readers alike.

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