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Abdias do Nascimento | |
|---|---|
 Abdias do Nascimento in 2006 | |
| Senator for Rio de Janeiro | |
| In office February 25, 1997 – January 31, 1999 | |
| Federal Deputy for Rio de Janeiro | |
| In office March 18, 1983 – January 31, 1987 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Abdias do Nascimento March 14, 1914 Franca, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Died | May 23, 2011 (aged 97) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Spouse(s) | Léa Garcia (1951–1958) Isabel Barros (circa. 1970 - ?)[1] Elisa (Elizabeth) Larkin Nascimento (1975–2011) |
| Occupation | Activist, playwright, writer, journalist, politician, poet, artist, professor |
| Awards | Nominated twice for Nobel Peace Prize (1978/2010)
UNESCO Toussaint Louverture Prize for Extraordinary Service to the Cause of Combatting Racism and Racial Discrimination (2004) United Nations Award for Relevant Services in Human Rights (2003) UNESCO Prize for Human Rights and Culture of Peace (2001) Getulio Vargas Labor Order of Merit (2009) Brazilian Order of Cultural Merit (2007) Order of Rio Branco, in the degree of Official (2001) and Comendador (2006) Brazil Bar Association Human Rights Prize (2005) |
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011[2]) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician.[3] Also a poet, dramatist, and Pan-African activist, Nascimento created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982). Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the first Afro-Brazilian member of Congress to champion black people's human and civil rights in the National Legislature, where in 1983 he presented the first Brazilian proposals for affirmative action legislation.[4] He served as Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for the Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian People and Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship. While working as curator of the Black Arts Museum project, he began developing his own creative work (painting), and from 1968 on, he exhibited widely in the U.S., Brazil and abroad. He received national and international honors for his work, including UNESCO's special Toussaint Louverture Award for contribution to the fight against racism, granted to him and to poet Aimé Césaire in 2004. He was officially nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.[5][6]
- ^ Amy H. Winter; Elisa Larkin Nascimento; John F. Collins, eds. (April 28 – June 21, 2014). "Abdias Nascimento: artist, ctivist, author" (PDF). Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
- ^ Weber, Bruce (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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- ^ "Senador Abdias Nascimento, uma vida dedicada à luta contra o racismo". Federal Senate of Brazil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Abdias do Nascimento". MASP (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved March 28, 2024.