"In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the life of the American Negro and the three norns who have traditionally presided over the Negro problem have a changeling in their laps. The Sociologist, the Philanthropist, the Race-leader are not unaware of the New Negro, but they are at a loss to account for him... With this renewed self-respect and self-dependence, the life of the Negro community is bound to enter a new dynamic phase." — Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925)
Locke's essay served as a manifesto for the
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Harlem Renaissance flowering of African American arts and letters
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Back-to-Africa movement led by Marcus Garvey
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Tuskegee Institute's vocational program
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Niagara Movement of 1905
Explanation
Locke edited The New Negro (1925), the defining anthology of the Harlem Renaissance, including Hughes, Hurston, Cullen, and others.