Alain Leroy Locke was the first African American to win a Rhodes scholarship in 1907. Lock was a philosopher he was best known for his writing on and his support of the Harlem renaissance. Lock was born on September 13th 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Locke graduated from Harvard university which is a prestigious university  like […]

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Written in My Life Bill Clinton he describes the process of becoming a Rhodes Scholar. Every year thirty-two American Rhodes scholars are chosen for two years of study at Oxford university paid for by the trust established in 1903 by Cecil Rhodes’s will. A student could apply in either the state where he lived or […]

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