Alain LeRoy Locke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alain LeRoy Locke

American philosopher and writer

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1885

Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jun-1954

Profession: writer, teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alain Leroy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, educator, and patron of the arts.
Distinguished as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar in 1907, Locke was the philosophical architect —the acknowledged "Dean"— of the Harlem Renaissance.
As a result, popular listings of influential African Americans have repeatedly included him.
On March 19, 1968, the Rev.
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
proclaimed: "We're going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W.
E.
B.
Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe."