LOCKE, ALAIN LEROY
(1886–1954)> WRITER
LOCKE, ALAINLEROY. Writer (13 September 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 9 June 1954 in New York, New York). A professor at Howard University in Washington, D.C., he is cited here as the author of books containing information about black musicians: The New Negro (1925) and The Negro and His Music (1936). He obtained his education at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.A., 1907; Ph.D, 1918); Oxford University in England (1907-10), where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and the…