October 28
October 28, 1907
First Black Rhodes Scholar
In 1907, Alain LeRoy Locke of Philadelphia was selected as the first African American Rhodes Scholar to attend Oxford University. He went on to become a professor at Howard University and the intellectual architect of the Harlem Renaissance through his anthology "The New Negro."
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Sources
1. Alain Locke: The First African American Rhodes Scholar — The American Philosophical Society2. Alain Locke: The First Black Rhodes Scholar — PBS3. Alain Locke: The First Black Rhodes Scholar — The Library of CongressLink copied!
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