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Inscribed on flyleaf: “For Marian Anderson, in deep appreciation and friendship, Alain Locke 1939”. A superb association book of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ‘30s, of which Howard University Professor Locke was “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius”. Locke’s book traces African-American music from slave spirituals and “minstrelsy” through Ragtime and Jazz. In his chapter on “Negro Musicians To-day”, he highlights Marian Anderson (misspelling her first name in both the book and inscription), “who has achieved international fame as ‘one of the greatest voices of this generation’”. That Locke presented this copy to Anderson three years after its publication prompts speculation that he may have given it to the internationally-acclaimed singer on the occasion of her legendary concert at the Lincoln Memorial in April 1939.