Heading: (1928 Alain Locke, Decade of Negro Self-Expression)
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Title: Alain Locke's scarce 1928 annotated bibliography of African-American writing on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance
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Date Published: 1928
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A Decade of Negro Self-Expression. Compiled by Alain Locke. Professor of Philosophy, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Foreword by Howard Odum (Charlottesville, Va. John F. Slater Fund, Occasional Paper 26, 1928) 20 pp.Original wrappers.

Des[oteLocke's self-effacing remark that "this pamphlet is little more than an annotated list of books written by Negroes since the outbreak of the World War", this work is significant because of Locke's 4 page introduction as well as his annotations on now-classic writings by BenjaminBrawley, Kelly Miller, J.A. Rogers, Amy Garvey, Emmett Scott, Charles Wesley, W.E.B. Du Bois,CounteeCullen, James Weldon Johnson, William StanleyBraithwaite, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, CharlesChestnutt, Jessie and ArthurFauset, Carter Woodson, RobertRussaMoton, NathanielDett, W.C. Handy, and, of course, Locke's own works. An uncommon imprint by the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance". No copy has appeared at auction.

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