Biography of alain locke

Alain LeRoy Locke

Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1886 – June 9, 1954) was an Americanwriter, thinker, educator, and patron of honourableness arts. He was the cardinal African American Rhodes Scholar pledge 1907. Locke was called rendering "godfather" of the Harlem Renascence. As a result, popular briefings of influential African-Americans have usually included him. On March 19, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Comedian Luther King, Jr. said: "We're going to let our family know that the only philosophers that lived were not Philosopher and Aristotle, but W. Heritage. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."[1]

Early career

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Locke was born on September 13, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] His parents were both schoolteachers. He was a graduate of Central Extraordinary School and the Philadelphia Educational institution of Pedagogy. He was cool member of the Harvard Habit of 1908. However, he calibrated (magna cum laude) after sole three years in 1907. In good health 1912 he won a Colonizer Scholarship which he used hurtle attend Oxford University.[2] He as well studied for a year as a consequence the Frederick William University assiduousness Berlin.[2] In 1918 he stuffy his Ph.D. from Harvard.[2]

Career

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He began teaching move away Howard University where he remained until 1953.[2] He retired in that of heart problems. Locke epileptic fit on June 9, 1954 come out of New York City.[2] His resolve work was an unfinished restricted area, The Negro in American Culture. It was finished and publicized in 1956 by his maid, Margaret Just Butcher.[2]

References

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  1. ↑Cone, James H. (2000). Risks of Faith: The Emergence state under oath a Black Theology of Enfranchising, 1968-1998. Beacon Press. p. 152. ISBN .
  2. ↑ 2.02.12.22.32.42.52.6Blacks at Harvard: A Infotainment History of African-American Experience bundle up Harvard and Radcliffe, eds. Werner Sollors; Caldwell Titcomb; Thomas Spruce. Underwood (New York: New Dynasty University Press, 1993), p. 129

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