Alain LeRoy Locke

Life

Alain Locke's parents were Pliny Ishmael Locke (1850-1892) and Mary Hawkins Locke ( 1853-1922 ). As the second best he made in 1902 graduated from the Central High School in Philadelphia. 1907 Locke finished his English and philosophy at Harvard University. As the first African American he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. Locke was also a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa academic association. Nevertheless, he refused because of his skin color several colleges in Oxford access until it finally allowed the Hertford College, where he studied 1907-1910 literature, philosophy, Greek and Latin. 1910 Locke studied at the University of Berlin philosophy; In 1911 he attended the Collège de France in Paris.

As a teacher of English at Howard University in Washington, DC, he worked with WEB Du Bois and Carter Woodson ( 1875-1950 ). 1916 Locke worked at Harvard on his dissertation on The Problem of Classification in the Theory of Value; In 1918 he became a Ph.D. doctorate in philosophy. Locke returned to Howard University as Head of the Philosophy Department and remained in that position until his retirement in 1953.

Works (selection)

  • The New Negro: An Interpretation. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925.
  • Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. Survey Graphic 6.6 ( 1 March 1925).
September 13 1886 Pennsylvania June 9 1954 Harlem Renaissance Phi Beta Kappa Society Hertford College, Oxford Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Name Authority File
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