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Alain LeRoy Locke
John Locke

Belva Ann Lockwood
James Loewen

Alain Leroy Locke, Photographic Print

Alain LeRoy Locke
b. 9-13-1885; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. 6-9-1954; NYC

Philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke an educator and patron of the arts best known for his writings on and about the Harlem Renaissance. Called by some the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”, he was a motivating force in keeping the energy and passion of the Movement at the forefront.

Locke was the first African American Rhodes Scholar and chairman of the Howard University philosophy department.

Alain LeRoy Locke quotes ~
• “The pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.”
• “It must be increasingly recognized that the Negro has already made very substantial contributions, not only in his folk-art, music especially, which has always found appreciation, but in larger, though humbler and less acknowledged ways. For generations the Negro has been the peasant matrix of that section of America which has most undervalued him, and here he has contributed not only materially in labor and in social patience, but spiritually as well. The South has unconsciously absorbed the gift of his folk-temperament. In less than half a generation it will be easier to recognize this, but the fact remains that a leaven of humor, sentiment, imagination and tropic nonchalance has gone into the making of the South from a humble, unacknowledged source.” The New Negro, 1920
• “. . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.”

• The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

John Locke Giclee Print

John Locke
b. 8-29-1632; Wrington, England
d. 10-28-1704

Philosopher and physician John Locke has had a profound effect on educational theory: he defined a person as “a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it”... (Essay on Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27, Section 9).

John Locke quotes ~
• “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
• “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
• “That which worries you, masters you.”
• “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
• “Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
• “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

• Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Belva Ann Lockwood, née Bennett
b. 10-24-1830; Royalton, NY
d. 5-19-1917

Belva A. Lockwood overcame social and personal obstacles to become an educator, attorney, and author active in working for women's rights such as equal pay for women. Lockwood was the first woman to be sworn in as member of the U.S. Supreme Court bar and in 1880 she became the first woman lawyer to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Lockwood, who ran for president in 1884, reportedly receiving 4,100 votes. She also supported the movement for world peace and temperance.

• Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President

James W. Loewen
b. 2-2-1942

James W. Loewen is the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America. He is a regular contributor to the History Channel's History magazine and is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont.

Loewen explores how historical myths continue to be perpetuated in today's climate and adds an eye-opening chapter on the lies surrounding 9/11 and the Iraq War. From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. (from book description)

Albert John Lutuli (Luthuli)
b. c. 1899; Groutville near Durban, South Africa
d. 7-21-1967; South Africa

Albert John Lutuli, teacher and President of the African National Congress, was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize being “in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.”

Mary Lyon
b. 2-28-1797; Buckland, Massachusetts
d. 3-5-1849

Mary Lyon, who grew up in a farm family where everyone had to work, managed to attend school intermittently. She began teaching in 1814, eventually being able to attend two secondary schools, and to serve as an assistant to her friend Zilpah Polly Grant, the founder of the Ipswich Female Seminary.

Lyon went on to found Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), which resembled Grant's schools in many respects but was intended to draw its students from a wider socioeconomic range. Lyon managed to keep the cost of attending her school low by requiring students to do domestic chores (work/study) and by paying her teachers poorly.

FYI - one of Lyon's students at Mount Holyoke was Emily Dickinson.