Question

What was Alain Locke’s key contribution to the Harlem Renaissance?
A. He sensitized whites to this black renaissance.
B. He urged blacks to return to Africa.
C. He promoted black intellectuals as role models.
D. He wrote about the misery of blacks in the South.
E. His paintings depicted the vibrancy of urban black culture.

Answer 1

Alain Locke’s key contribution to the Harlem Renaissance is E. His paintings depicted the vibrancy of urban black culture. He is known as Father of the Harlem Renaissance for his work of the 1925,  The New Negro.

Answer 2

The correct answer is A) He sensitized whites to this black Renaissance.  

Alain Locke's key contribution to the Harlem Renaissance was that he sensitized whites to his black Renaissance.

Alain Leroy Locke (1885-1954) was an African American writer and educator that always supported the art of the black people. He was one of the main supporters of the Harlem Renaissance, that was an African American movement in the United States in the 1920s, that expressed the arts and culture of the black people in the Harlem, New York. Many people considered him "The Father of the Harlem Renaissance." He also wrote many essays and books.