This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century.

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology TheNew Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often calle

The definitive biography of Alain Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and Harvard PhD in philosophy, Howard University philosophy scholar, and arch

In 1689, John Locke wrote that individuals had the right to life and liberty. Soon, his ideas spread across the world and helped create a new system of rule. In