Alain Locke. Autograph Letter Signed. Washington, D.C., November 14, 1927. 1pg. To Marion Colvin Deane, Hampton Institute, Virginia.
“…Certainly my hobby – The artistic and cultural development of the Negro is well worth prizing – and because of that the individuals who are helping it forward…” Howard University Professor Locke was the acknowledged “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s and ‘30s – both its “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius”.
