| Alain Locke  AKA Alain LeRoy Locke
Born: 13-Sep-1886
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Died: 9-Jun-1954
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Author, Educator Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Leader in the Harlem Renaissance Father: Pliny Ishmael Locke
Mother: Mary Hawkins Locke
Special Friend: Countee Cullen
High School: Central High School, Philadelphia, PA
University: AB, Harvard University (1907, magna cum laude)
University: Oxford University (1907-10)
University: University of Berlin (1910-11)
University: PhD Philosophy, Harvard University (1918)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
Rhodes Scholarship First black Rhodes Scholar
Author of books:
Four Negro Poets (1927, ed. by Alain Locke)
The Negro in America (1933, nonfiction)
Frederick Douglass (1935, biography)
Negro Art: Past and Present (1936, nonfiction)
The Negro and His Music (1936, nonfiction)
The Negro in Art (1941, nonfiction)
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