Alain Locke | 1886-1954

1925 - The New Negro
A compendium of essays, stories, a play and comprehensive bibliographies of black American writers, The New Negro served as a proclamation of the Harlem Renaissance. Locke felt that the black artists' collective spirit would serve to enrich American culture.

1927 - Plays of Negro Life
Edited with Montgomery Gregory

1936 - The Negro and His Music

1936 - Negro Art: Past and Present

1940 - The Negro in Art:
            A Pictorial Record of
            the Negro Artist and
            of the Negro Theme
            in Art