Popularizing “The New Negro”

1925

Alain Locke’s anthology popularized the term “New Negro Movement.”

Alain LeRoy Locke’s 1925 book The New Negro: An Interpretation helped popularize and define the New Negro Movement. Locke assembled essays, poems, and fiction from writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Weldon Johnson. Many of the contributors to The New Negro became well-known within the New Negro Movement.

The New Negro Movement, which overlapped with the Harlem Renaissance, promoted racial pride and cultural connections across the Black diaspora.