The Negro in the Three Americas

This paper is the original English text of the concluding lecture—“The Negro in the Three Americas,” from a series of six public lectures on The Rôle of the Negro in the American Culture delivered in Haiti last Spring by Dr. Alain Locke, Professor of Philosophy at Howard University, on leave as Exchange Professor to Haiti under the joint auspices of the American Committee for Inter-American Artistic and Intellectual Relations and the Haitian Ministry of Education. The lectures were delivered in Port au Prince during May in the Aula of the School of Law under the sponsorship of the Council of The University of Haiti, inaugural lecture under the patronage of President Elie Lescot, and were repeated in part at Cap Haitien at the Lycee Phillipe Guerrier and the Salle Municipale. They have recently been published, as delivered, in a French edition of 2,000 copies by l’Imprimerie de l’Etat, Port au Prince, 1943 (pp. 141) under the title: Le Rôle du Nègre dans la Culture des Ameriques. At the conclusion of his stay in Haiti, Professor Locke was decorated by President Lescot with the National Order of Honor and Merit, grade of Commandeur.