It is named after Alain LeRoy Locke.

Among them are the former residences of: Charles Manuel " Sweet Daddy " Grace, flamboyant founder of the United House of Prayer For All People ; John A. Lankford, the first African American architect in Washington, D. C .; Belford Lawson, Jr., lead attorney in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co .; Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance ; Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman to earn a bachelor's degree ; Ella Watson, subject of Gordon Parks's famous photograph American Gothic, Washington, D. C .; and James Lesesne Wells, noted graphic artist and longtime art instructor at Howard University.

Howard Theological Seminary received its first matriculates in 1866 ; by 1925, Professor Alain LeRoy Locke was advancing the idea of " The New Negro ", and Langston Hughes was descending from LeDroit Park to hear the " sad songs " of 7th Street.

Phi Beta Sigma fraternity brother Alain LeRoy Locke is unofficially credited as the " Father of the Harlem Renaissance.

Other notable members include: World famous scientist, George Washington Carver, the first black Rhodes Scholar Alain LeRoy Locke, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, organizer of the Million Man March, Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, civil rights activists, Hosea Williams, Rev.

A number of buildings and schools have been named after Sigma men such as: George Washington Carver, Alain LeRoy Locke, Cornelius V. Troupe, Robert Russa Moton, Alger Boswell and James Weldon Johnson.

Alston was introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.

Du Bois and Alain Locke developed concepts of cultural pluralism, from which emerged what we understand today as multiculturalism.

The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.

Alain Locke wrote in his foreword to the literary collection The New Negro, “ We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture … we shall let the Negro speak for himself .” Locke believed that African Americans lived in a world with political realities, and thus needed to respond with a deliberate politics in their work.

Alain Locke writes in a review, " when will the Negro novelist of maturity, who knows how to tell a story convincingly -- which is Miss Hurston's cradle gift, come to grips with motive fiction and social document fiction?

Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro, which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.

Alain Leroy Locke High School is a Title 1 co-educational charter high school located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District / Green Dot Public Schools.

Alain Locke included the essay in his edited collection The New Negro.

He also began studying with Winold Reiss, a German artist who had been hired by Alain Locke to illustrate The New Negro.

Beginning in the 1920s, Douglas's illustrations appeared in books by James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, and other prominent black writers, activists, and intellectuals.

Du Bois, and Alain Locke regarded it as an " affront to the hospitality of black folks ".

In 1947 critic Alain Locke described him as " a real and rare genius, combining folk quality with artistic maturity so uniquely as almost to defy classification.

It encouraged mass interest in literature and the arts, and paved the way for publication of Alain Locke ’ s well-known The New Negro eight years later.

After her death, her friend and advisor, Dr. Chris Chapman completed a book about her life and the African American pioneers she had worked with and been friends with, including Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, Josephine Baker, and Matthew Henson.

Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Alain Locke, and hosted regular Sunday evening gatherings with persons such as Mary Church Terrell, William L. Hunt, Amanda Hilyer, Harry T. Burleigh, and Will Marion Cook.

Contributors to Folk-Say included Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Henry Roth, J. Frank Dobie, Louise Pound, Alexander Haggerty Krappe, Archer Taylor, Stanley Vestal, Alain Locke, Sterling Brown, Paul Horgan, and Mari Sandoz.

( In the novel, Sweetie May Carr, a character modelled on the real-life Hurston, christens the Harlem rooming house where Dr Parkes, modelled on the real life Alain Locke, establishes a salon of artists, Niggerati Manor, just as Thurman's own rooming house was in real life.

Gregory, and Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, were inducted into the Fraternity.

* June 9-Alain LeRoy Locke, patron of the arts ( b. 1886 )