Alain Leroy Locke
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African American author, philosopher, and teacher. A key figure in the development of the Harlem Renaissance, he is remembered for such philosophical and social works as The New Negro: An Interpretation and When Peoples Meet: A Study of Race and Culture Contacts.
Before Fame
He graduated from Harvard University in the early 1900s and subsequently became the first African American to earn a Rhodes Scholarship.
Trivia
He was a practitioner of the Bahá'í Faith.
Family Life
He was born in Pennsylvania to Mary Hawkins Locke and Pliny Ishmael Locke.
Associated With
He was an important mentor to fellow African American author Zora Neale Hurston.
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