Alain Locke in the 21st Century

12 October 2012

Alain Locke was the first African-American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford – and we are proud that he was a student at Hertford from 1907. Locke went on to a distinguished academic career, and was a leader of the black arts movement of the early twentieth century. He edited the influential anthology The New NEgro (1925) and has been called the father of the Harlem Renaissance.

A conference at the Rothermere American Institute, co-sponsored by the college, considers his legacy.