Personal Vita
January, 1999
Alain Locke
[A. Locke; Dr. Alain Locke; Brother Doctor Alain Leroy Locke]
[source: Compiled and edited by Roger Hiemstra, January 8, 1999; data obtained from "Alain Locke and the AAAE Movement: Cultural Pluralism and Negro Adult Education," by Talmadge C. Guy, Adult Education Quarterly, 46, 209-223, 1996, and other resources on the WWW]
Use any search engine on the WWW and type in "Alain Locke" to receive various site possibilities. In addition, see the Talmadge Guy article cited above and the Alain Locke papers, Washington, DC, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
[source: Roger Hiemstra]
Alain Leroy Locke was born in 1886 during the post-reconstruction era and died in 1954, a month before the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. An intellectual steeped in the realities of color in 20th century America, Locke possessed a range of interests that makes chronicling and interpreting his career in adult education challenging. Most widely known for his leadership in the New Negro movement of the 1920s, he also was a leading African American figure in the adult education movement of the 1930s.
Other notable activities and contributions include the following: An annual publication of a review of the literature and scholarship on the Negro from 1928 until 1953; service as visiting professor at several universities including the Universities of Wisconsin and California, the City College of New York, the New School of Social Science in New York and as guest professor at the Harvard Academic Festival in Salzburg. Under the auspices of the Progressive Education Association, he along with the social anthropologist Bernard Stern conducted summer workshops at Sarah Lawrence College and at Chicago, Northwestern and Syracuse Universities. He lectured in Latin America, Haiti and throughout the United States. He made regular visits to Africa, Paris and Rome. He wrote for or was associated with magazines and journals such as The Crisis, Opportunity, and Phylon and served on the editorial boards for The American Scholar, Progressive Education, and the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion. He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, the AcadÈmie des Science Coloniales, Paris.
He died in 1954 in New York City.
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
Birth Date
September 13, 1886
WWW: http://www.pbseast.org/news/alainlocke.html
Death Date
June 9, 1954.
Source of Death Date
WWW: http://www.optonline.com/comptons/ceo/02842_A.html]
1904--Graduate, School of Pedagogy, Philadelphia, PA
1904-07--A.B., Philosophy, Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
1908-1910--Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University, England.
1910-1911--University of Berlin, Germany.
1916-circa 1920--Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard, Cambridge, MA.
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
Dr. Locke taught at Howard University in Washington, DC, for nearly 40 years.
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
Adult Education Movement.
Harlem Renaissance
Music
Negro [sic] Adult Education
New Negro [sic] Movement
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
Josiah Royce
William James
George Santayana
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
American Association for Adult Education [AAAE]
Most widely known for his leadership in the New Negro movement of the 1920s, he also was a leading African American figure in the adult education movement of the 1930s under the sponsorship of the American Association for Adult Education and the Carnegie Corporation. In 1946-47 he served as president of the American Association for Adult Education.
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
President of the AAAE, 1946-47.
[Source: http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Locke.html. A biographical sketch and annotated bibliography written by Talmadge C. Guy, Assistant Professor of Adult Education at the University of Georgia]
Cambridge, MA
Harlem, NY
Washington, DC (Howard University)
[source: Roger Hiemstra]
A variety of very useful references are shown in "Alain Locke and the AAAE Movement: Cultural Pluralism and Negro Adult Education," by Talmadge C. Guy, Adult Education Quarterly, 46, 209-223, 1996,
Steward, J. C. (Ed.). (1992). Alain Locke, race contacts and interracial relations. Washington, DC: Howard University Press.
Locke's books stressed black culture, but he always tried to show how this fitted into the whole of American life. His first book was The New Negro (1925). He acted either as author or editor for a number of others. Among these were The Negro in America'(1933), The Negro and his music (1936), and The Negro in art (1941). With Bernhard J. Stern he edited When peoples meet: A study in race and culture contacts (1942).
References To
Resolution for Dr. Alain Locke
Harris, L. (Ed.). (1999). Alain Locke: A reader on value theory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
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