THE NEW NEGRO

2015 Reprint of 1925 Edition Full facsimile of the original edition Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software Alain Locke is the acknowledged father of the Harlem Renaissance A highly educated man and the first African to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship Locke served as the bridge between a burgeoning literary expression centered in Harlem and the mainstay literary world Published in 1925 the New Negro is combines an anthology of poems stories and essays by black luminaries of the period along with new essays by prominent scholars and specialists The New Negro was a symbol of the literary fruit of the great migration of blacks from the rural south to the urban North Locke was certain that Harlem was fast becoming a new mecca of black artistry and one of the worlds cultural capitals Contents 1 Negro renaissance New Negro A Locke Negro art and America Albert C Barnes Negro in American literature William Stanley Braithwaite Negro youth speaks A Locke Fiction City of refuge Vestiges Rudolph Fisher Fog John Matheus Carma from Cane Fern from Cane Jean Toomer Spunk Zora Neale Hurston Sahdju Bruce Nugent Palm porch Eric Walrond Poetry by Countee Cullen Claude McKay Jean Toomer James Weldon Johnson Langston Hughes Georgia Douglas Johnson Anne Spencer Angelina Grimke Lewis Alexander Drama Drama of Negro life Montgomery Gregory Gift of laughter Jessie Fauset Compromise a folk tale Willis Richardson Music Negro spirituals A Locke Negro dancers Claude McKay Jazz at home JA Rogers Jazzonia Nude young dancer Langston Hughes Negro digs up his past Arthur A Schomburg American Negro folk literature Arthur huff Fauset Tappin told by Cugo Lewis Brer Rabbit fools Buzzard Heritage Countee Cullen Legacy of the ancestral arts A Locke pt 2 New Negro in a New World Negro pioneers Paul U Kellogg New frontage on American life Charles S Johnson New scene Harlem the culture capital James Weldon Johnson Howard the National Negro University Kelly M