Abdias do Nascimento
Born in Franca, São Paulo, March 14, 1914.
Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, Buffalo (Professor Proprietor from 1971 to 1981, he founded the chair of African Culture in New World Studies Center in Puerto Ricans).
Artist, writer, poet, playwright.
Education
Bachelor of Economics, University of Rio de Janeiro, 1938.
postgraduate Diploma, Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies (ISEB), 1957.
Postgraduate Diploma in Marine Studies, University Catolica do Rio de Janeiro / Ministry of the Navy, 1967.
Doctor Honoris Causa, State University of Rio de Janeiro, 1993.
Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 2000.
office and Executive has
Federal Deputy (1983-86).
Secretary of State, Government of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Special Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian Populations (SEAFRO) (1991-1994).
Senator (1991-99). Alternate Senator Darcy Ribeiro, took the Senate seat representing the Rio de Janeiro by PDT in two periods: 1991-1992 and 1997-99.
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Citizenship, the State Government of Rio de Janeiro, 1999. Coordinator of the Human Rights Council, 1999-2000.
Activities & Accomplishments Main
1930-1936. enlists in the army and the capital of Sao Paulo part of the Frente Negra Brasileira. Participates in the Revolutions of 1930 and 1932, as a soldier. Combating racial discrimination in shops in São Paulo.
1936. Switch to Rio de Janeiro in order to continue his studies in economics, started in Sao Paulo.
1937. Protesting against the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, was arrested and convicted of the National Security Court and is serving a sentence in the Penitentiary of Frei Mug.
1938. organizes together with a group of black militants in Campinas, SP, Congress African Campineiro, with the aim of discussing and organizing forms of resistance to racial discrimination.
1938. Diploma from the Faculty of Economics, University of Rio de Janeiro.
1940. Member of the Santa Hermandad Orchid, a group of poets Argentines and Brazilians, travels with them throughout South America in Lima, Peru, makes a series of lectures at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos (School of Economics). Watching the play The Emperor Jones by Eugene O'Neill, starring a white actor, Hugo D'Evieri, paperback black. From the reflections caused by this fact, plans to create the theater of Brazilian Blacks returning to their country. In Argentina, where he lived for over a year, participates in a theatrical motion in order to better conceptualize the idea of \u200b\u200bBlack Theatre.
1941. Returning to Brazil, was arrested at Carandiru Penitentiary, convicted in absentia for having resisted the racist attacks in 1936. He founded the Theatre of Sentenced, organizing a group of prisoners who write, direct and interpret drama.
1943. Leaving prison, demand in Sao Paulo to support the creation Theatre of the Negro. Not finding acceptance from the intellectuals like the writer Mário de Andrade, and other changes to the Rio de Janeiro.
1944. Funda, with the support of a group of black intellectuals and sections of the city, the Rio Negro Experimental Theatre (TEN). UNE's headquarters, held the first courses in literacy, drama and general training for participants in the entity.
1945. Directs TEN in his debut at the Municipal Theatre with the play The Emperor Jones, starring the brilliant black actor Aguinaldo Camargo on May 8, the day the Allied victory in World War II. Thence on, until 1968, TEN has prominent presence in the Brazilian cultural scene and theatrical.
1945. With a group of militants founded the Afro-Brazilian Democratic Committee, which is fighting for amnesty for political prisoners.
1945-46. Organizes the National Convention of the Negro (the first session by performing in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the second), which proposes that the National Constituent Assembly to include a constitutional provision defining racial discrimination as a crime against our homeland. The initiative, presented to the National Constituent Assembly by Senator Hamilton Nogueira, is not approved.
1946. participates in the foundation of the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) in Rio de Janeiro.
1948. Funda, along with Sebastiao Rodrigues Alves and other PTB, the black movement of the PTB.
1949. organizes, in collaboration with the sociologist and ethnologist Ramos Carneiro Edison National Conference of Black, preparation of the 1st Congress of Brazilian Blacks.
1949-1951. Funda Quilombo and directs the paper, divulging of Ten.
1950. Performs in Rio de Janeiro the 1st Congress of Brazilian Blacks, organized by TEN.
1955. Performs Arts Contest on the theme of the Black Christ, the controversial event which deserved the condemnation of catholic and support of Bishop Dom Helder Camara.
1957. is formed in the first class of the Institute of Brazilian Studies (ISEB). Premieres his play, Sortilégio: Black Mystery, at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
1968. founded the Museum of African Art, which holds its inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound of Rio de Janeiro. You are the target of several investigations Police-Military and is forced to leave the country. Invited by the Fairfield Foundation, begins a series of lectures in the United States.
1968-69. During a semester, serves as Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, School of Dramatic Arts. Began as an artist, painting canvases that convey the values \u200b\u200bof african-Brazilian religious culture and the human rights struggle of African peoples worldwide. (See list below shows).
1969-70. Invited by the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), participates in one year, with intellectuals such as Norman Mailer, Norman O. Brown, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Leslie Fiedler, and others, the seminar Humanity in Revolt.
1970. is invited to establish the chair of African Cultures in the New World, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo, as an associate professor in the holder next year, and stays there until 1981.
1973. Participates in the Planning Conference of the 6th Pan African Congress in Kingston, Jamaica.
1974. Participates in the Sixth Pan-African Congress, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as the sole representative of Latin America.
1976-77. Invited by the University of Ife, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, spends a year as Visiting Professor in the Department of African Languages \u200b\u200band Literatures.
1976. participate, upon invitation of the writer Wole Soyinka, the World Seminar for African Alternatives, a meeting that founded the Union of African Writers in Dakar.
1977. participates as an observer, chased by the official delegation of the scheme Brazilian military, the Second World Festival of Arts and Cultures and African Blacks, held in Lagos. Denounces, in their Conference, the situation of racist discrimination experienced by blacks in Brazil. In Europe and the United States participates in the foundation, from exile, the new PTB (later the Democratic Labor Party - PDT).
1977. Participates as a delegate and chairman of the working group, the First Congress of Black Culture in the Americas, held in Cali, Colombia.
1978. Participates in Sao Paulo's public act of founding and organizational meetings of the Black Movement Unified against Racism and Racial Discrimination. Participates in international meeting in Brazil The Brazilian exiles threshold of the Decade of the Eighties, in Stockholm, Sweden.
1979. the invitation of the Parliamentary Black Block (Congressional Black Caucus) of the U.S. Congress, and the Postal Workers Union, gives lecture at the headquarters of the House of Representatives in Washington, DC
1980. Participates as a special delegate of the Second Congress of Black Culture of the Americas, held in Panama, and is elected by the full General Coordinator of the Third Congress. In Brazil, launches the book The Quilombo and helps to create the Memorial Zumbi, national organization dedicated to recovery, to benefit the community african-Brazilian and African world, the lands of the Republic of Palmares in the Serra da Barriga, Alagoas.
1981. Foundation Research Institute and Afro-Brazilian Studies (IPEAFRO) at PUC-SP. Integrates the national executive of the PDT and founded the Secretariat of the Black Movement of PDT, in Rio de Janeiro and national level. Participates in the international coordination of the project Kindred Spirits exhibition of arts african American.
1982. Organization and is elected to preside over the Third Congress of Culture Black in the Americas, held in the premises of PUC-SP with representatives from across the African world except the Pacific.
1983. assumed the chair of Congressman, elected deputy by the PDT-RJ. It is the first african american deputy to exercise the mandate to defend human and civil rights of african american people. At the invitation of the UN, participating in the Regional Symposium of Latin America in Support of People's Struggle of Namibia for their independence in San Jose, Costa Rica. Visit the former headquarters of the UNIA Marcus Garvey in Limón. Also travels to Nicaragua, taking part in the National Assembly and meeting people of African descent in Bluefields, eastern coast of the country. In Washington, DC, participates in the seminar International Dimensions: The Reality of an Interdependent World, at the invitation of the Parliamentary Bloc Negro (Black Congressional Caucus), at the headquarters of the National Congress of the United States.
1984. Creates together with a group of black intellectuals and activists, the Afro-Brazilian Foundation for Art, Education and Culture (FUNAFRO), integrating the IPEAFRO, the Experimental Theater of the Black Diaspora magazine, and the Museum of African Art.
1985. the invitation of the UN, participating in the World Symposium on Action in support of the people of Namibia for their independence, in New York. Participating again in the international meeting sponsored by the parliamentary bloc of Black America: the International Conference on the Status of Peoples of the Third World, at the headquarters of the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC Integrating Brazilian official delegation, visiting Israel at the invitation of their government.
1987. Participates as a delegate of honor, the International Conference on Negritude and African Cultures in the Americas, Florida International University, Miami. Member of the Board of Contributors of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro.
1987-88. integrates the International Steering Committee, Pan African Festival of Arts and Culture, Dakar, Senegal. Participates in the international leadership of Gorée Memorial, an organization dedicated to the project of building a memorial to enslaved Africans in the Senegalese island that served as an entrepôt of the slave trade. Integrates the international leadership of the Institute of Black Peoples, an international organization promoted with the support of UNESCO by the Government of Burkina Faso and other African and Caribbean countries.
1988. Delivers the inaugural conference of the International Conference Series Annual WEB DuBois in Accra, the Republic of Ghana, sponsored by the Center for Pan-African WEB DuBois, and visit the country at the invitation of the government. Participates in the National Commission for the Centenary of the Abolition of Slavery. Held a solo exhibition entitled Orishas: Living Gods of Africa, at the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Palace Capanema.
1989. As a consultant to UNESCO on cultural matters, spends a month in Angola. He was elected President of the Memorial Zumbi and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Palmares Cultural Foundation, Ministry of Culture. Is appointed as the representative of the City Council Taxpayers of the City of Rio de Janeiro, Secretariat Municipal Finance.
1990. the invitation of SWAPO (the national liberation movement turned political party elected to the nation's first government), participates in the ceremony of Namibian independence and the possession of government Sam Nujoma in Windhoek.
1990-91. For a year serves as Visiting Professor, Department of African-American Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia. Accompanies Darcy Ribeiro de Andrade and Doutel PDT on plaque to the Senate, was elected alternate senator.
1991. assumed the portfolio of Secretary of State for Defence and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian Populations (SEAFRO) in Government of Rio de Janeiro. At the invitation of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, is part of its 48th National Conference headed by Nelson Mandela in Durban. Appointed member of the Culture of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
1991-92. assumed the Senate seat. Integrates the presidential entourage on a visit to Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Participates in the First International Congress on Human Rights in the African World, sponsored by the nongovernmental organization AFRIC and held in Toronto, Canada.
1993-94. Resumes Extraordinary Secretariat for Defence and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian populations.
1995. Participates in the activities of the Tercentenary of Zumbi dos Palmares, in many states and municipalities in Brazil and the United States. Throw the book Orishas: Living Gods of Africa, with reproductions of his paintings, and text about culture african-Brazilian experience, and critical texts by various authors (African Americans, Caribbean, and Brazil) on their work of art. It is Patron of the Continental Congress of Black Peoples of the Americas, held in the Latin American Parliament in Sao Paulo to celebrate the Tercentenary of Immortality of Zumbi dos Palmares, November 20, 1995.
1996. Receives Mayor of St. Paul the title of Citizen Paulistano.
1997. permanently assumed the office of Senator. Receives Honorable Mention Award of Human Rights granted by the Commission on Human Rights of OAB-SP. Performs painting exhibition at the Black Hall of Congress.
1998. participates with a commentary on Article 4 of the Declaration Human Rights on the occasion of this cincoentenário UN document in 1998, included in the volume edited and published by the Federal Council of OAB. Other items were discussed by personalities such as Rabbi Henry Sobel, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Evandro Lins e Silva, Dalmo de Abreu Dallari, Joao Luiz Duboc Pinaud, and others. Performs painting exhibition (28 screens) in Debret Gallery in Paris.
1999. assumed, as a titular founder, the Department of Human Rights and Citizenship of the State Government of Rio de Janeiro. It is honored by the city of Salvador in five African personalities of the world: Malcolm X, Abdias Nascimento, Martin Luther King, Patrice Lumumba, Samora Machel.
2000. extinguished the Secretary of State for Human Rights, the interim chair the Human Rights Council and re-dedicate themselves to activities as a writer and painter. Receives the title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Federal University of Bahia.
2001. is bestowed by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, global reference center that integrates the system of public libraries in the city of New York, with the African Heritage Prize to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of that institution. The selection committee was made up of winners by former New York mayor, David N. Dinkins, the poet Maya Angelou, singer Harry Belafonte, actor Bill Cosby, the director of the publishing house Présence Africaine Yandé Christian Mme Diop, Professor Henry Louis Gates at Harvard University, the choreographer Judith Jamison, the filmmaker Spike Lee and Dean of University of the West Indies Rex Nettleford. The other five personalities honored with the award at a ceremony held at UN headquarters were the Senegalese intellectual and former UNESCO director M. Amadou Mahktar M'Bow, choreographer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham, a civil rights activist and founder of the Organization of Black Women of the United States Dorothy Height, the photographer Gordon Parks, photographer and musician and Billy Taylor.
Invited by the National Forum of Black Entities, makes the opening speech at the 2nd Plenary of Black Entities Towards the 3rd World Conference Against Racism, Rio de Janeiro, May 11, 2001.
is awarded the Citizenship Award in 2001, the Community Bah'ai of Brazil awarded in Salvador in June.
is inaugurated in July the Reference Center Abdias Nascimento, Racism and Anti-Semitism, and his service Dial-Racism Initiatives Foundation Hall Zumbi dos Palmares, City of Goytacazes, State of January.
Gives an opening speech to the National Meeting of Parliamentarians Black, Salvador, Bahia, July 26, 2001.
Invited by the Coalition of NGOs in South Africa (SANGOCO), gives a lecture on the table sources, causes and Contemporary Forms of Racism, NGO Forum, 3rd World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa, August 28 2001.
is awarded the Order of Rio Branco, the degree of Officer, Brasilia, October 2001.
is awarded the UNESCO Award, Category Human Rights and Culture of Peace, October 2001.
2002. Launches the books in The Brazil Aim of Pan-Africanism (CEAO / EdUFBA) and The Quilombo, 2nd ed. (Palmares Cultural Foundation).
is invited by the School of Arts and Crafts of Bahia to be the speaker at the second conference of his new segment, continuing this tradition in its 130th centennial anniversary.
Participates in National Day celebrations of Black Consciousness in Porto Alegre, November 20.
is honored by the National Human Rights Commission of the Federal Council of Psychology, at its 4th National Conference held in Brasilia on December 11, such as personality prominently in the history of human rights in Brazil.
Exhibition Abdias do Nascimento: Life and Art of a Warrior, Boniface Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, inaugurated in December.
2003. Speech, as a special guest at the inauguration of the National Secretariat for the Promotion of Racial Equality, Brasilia, March 21.
is honored by the Fala Preta! Organization of Black Women of St. Paul, as a prominent personality in the human rights of African descent in Brazil, April 22.
Publishes in May edition facsimile of the newspaper Quilombo (São Paulo: Editora 34).
Receives Diploma of Camellia, Campaign Affirmative Action / Positive Attitude, CEAP and NGO Coalition for Affirmative Action for African Descent, Rio de Janeiro, November 17.
Receives Memorial Award by the UN Human Rights Relevant Services, Rio de Janeiro, November 26.
2004. International Seminar On Promotion Policies Racial receives Recognition Award from the Special Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality, Matilde Ribeiro. Brasilia, March 21, 2004.
Receives the President's tribute to 90 years "the greatest exponent of Brazilian's uncompromising fight for the rights of blacks in combat discrimination, prejudice and racism." Brasilia, March 21, 2004.
Receives Recognition Award for 10 Years of Freedom - South Africa from 1994 to 2004, the Government of South Africa, April 2004.
Delivers lecture "Memorial Fight," The Negro in the Seminar on the Brazilian Republic: Guidelines for Research, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Reflection Memory and Afro-Descendant of PUC-Rio, May 2004.
participates in the VII Congress of BRASA, Brazilian Studies Association, honored as the Panel on his life and work, held in plenary session on June 10, 2004, PUC-Rio.
Participates in the World Culture Forum, held in Sao Paulo in July 2004 as a tribute panel Abdias Nascimento, a Brazilian in the World, organized by SEPPIR, it is officially released his name to the Nobel Peace Prize, amplifying the impact of the statement made by the Institute for Environmental Law and Racial Discrimination - IARA.
