Alain Locke, 1886 to 1954, a leading 20th century intellectual and the nation’s first black Rhodes Scholar, was a central figure in the New Negro, sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance. Locke edited ...

Ossie Davis was born in 1917 in Codgell, Georgia. Against the advice of his mentor, the pivotal Harlem Renaissance figure Alain Locke, Davis dropped out of Howard University in 1939 to pursue acting.