Black History Month: Scenes From The Harlem Renaissance

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Alain LeRoy Locke was a Harvard-trained writer, philosopher, educator, and arts patron and is known as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”. He was a documentarian of the movement as well as an evangelist. In his anthology “The New Negro,” he said that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Locke was an avid promoter of the works produced by the primary players of the era.

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