[2] According to Howard Martin, a professor at Howard University, "Dr. Locke's basic objective was to provide authentic information on major aspects of American Negro life, written by recognized, highly qualified authors, for a wide spectrum of readers, especially black Americans, at a low cost, so that the books could be afforded by the masses.
[4] These were a "crowning achievement",[5] "[p]erhaps the greatest service which Locke made to the adult education movement".
[6] Their success was "enormous": the "inexpensive booklets sold in the thousands and were in use all over the country, in libraries, high schools, churches, Y.M.C.A.
"[7] The requirement to "shorten, simplify, and sharpen" academic ideas for the general reader "may have helped Williams to transition from his cautious Oxford dissertation" to Capitalism and Slavery.
[9] Though Locke was elected president of the American Association of Adult Education in 1945, that organization "decided not to reprint any of the Bronze Booklets.