Alain Locke

Alain LeRoy Locke 

Universal Emancipation Proclamation | Black Baha’is & Race Amity Articles | ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s Call for Race Unity in America – 1912 | More Race Related Resources | Oneness/Unity in Diversity/Prejudice | Baha’i Writings on Justice   | Overcoming Oppression and the Barriers that Divide |  Baha’i Statements on Global Issues

Alain Locke: Dawn Thinker in a Twilight Age – Talk by Dr. Elsie Austin

Alain Locke: African American Icon JAINE TOTH | DEC 9, 2015 – PART 1 IN SERIES THE INTELLECTUAL GIANT OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Alain Locke’s Profound Impact on the Civil Rights Movement JAINE TOTH | DEC 10, 2015 – PART 2 IN SERIES THE INTELLECTUAL GIANT OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

The “Lincoln of the Spirit” and the “Black Plato” (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | FEB 21, 2014 – PART 9

Black Plato and the Harlem Renaissance (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | MAY 25, 2014 – PART 15

Black Plato’s Advice to Black Graduates (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | MAY 27, 2014 – PART 16

Black Plato on World Citizenship (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | JUL 25, 2014 – PART 17

Laying a Great Man to Rest—the Final Interment of Alain Locke CHRISTOPHER BUCK | OCT 7, 2014 – PART 21 THE UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Sing the Ballad of Alain Locke—Burying the Black Plato CHRISTOPHER BUCK | OCT 10, 2014 – PART 22 THE UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

How Miami’s Renowned Black Entrepreneur Became a Baha’i (Dana A. Dorsey/Alain Locke/Louis Gregory) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | AUG 26, 2018 – PART 44

America and Social Salvation (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | JAN 12, 2019 – PART 53

Alain Locke: the Pulitzer Prize, Legacy and Privacy CHRISTOPHER BUCK | JAN 12, 2020 – PART 54 THE UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Alain Locke’s Final Baha’i Fireside Gathering CHRISTOPHER BUCK , MICHAEL ROCHESTER | JUL 16, 2021 – PART 65 THE UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Alain Locke’s Advocacy of the Baha’i Faith CHRISTOPHER BUCK , MICHAEL ROCHESTER | JUL 20, 2021 – PART 66

The Baha’i Gospel of Unity (Alain Locke) CHRISTOPHER BUCK | NOV 27, 2013

Alain Locke: Pioneer in Multiculturalism & Race Amity by Christopher Buck PhD, JD

Alain Locke: Race Amity & the Baha’i Faith by Christopher Buck 2007 – A member of the Bahá’í Community, Locke and by association his writings are thought to have been influenced by the faith’s teachings on the elimination of racial prejudice and the promotion of racial unity, as well as by its emphasis on social justice.

Alain Locke: Bahá’í Principles and the Salvation of Democracy by Christopher Buck – Alain Locke, who joined the Bahá’í Faith in 1918 (the same year that he was awarded his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University) has provided a greatly expanded framework for democracy studies, in what may be considered to be a comprehensive view of democracy in its various economic, social, cultural and religious applications.

Unity Through Diversity A Baha’i Principle by Alain Locke – The Baha’i World – April 21, 1932

Impressions of Haifa Alain Locke reflects on his visit to Haifa in this article which was published in the first volume of The Bahá’í World, titled Bahá’í Yearbook (1925-1926) – scroll down to page 125

Four Talks Redefining Democracy, Education, and World Citizenship by Alain Locke – published in World Order, 38:3, pages 21-41, 2008

Alain Locke in his Own Words: Three Essays and a poem – The Moon Maiden p. 37, The Gospel of the Twentieth Century p. 39, Five Phases of Democracy: Farewell Address at Talladega College p. 45