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Abdias do Nascimento was born on 14 March, 1914 in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, is a Brazilian politician (1914–2011). Discover Abdias do Nascimento's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 97 years old?

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Occupation Activist, playwright, writer, journalist, politician, poet, artist, professor
Age 97 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 14 March 1914
Birthday 14 March
Birthplace Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Date of death 23 May, 2011
Died Place Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazil

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Who Is Abdias do Nascimento's Wife?

His wife is Léa Garcia (1951–1958) Isabel Barros (circa. 1970 - ?) Elisa (Elizabeth) Larkin Nascimento (1975–2011)

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Wife Léa Garcia (1951–1958) Isabel Barros (circa. 1970 - ?) Elisa (Elizabeth) Larkin Nascimento (1975–2011)
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Children Osiris Larkin Nascimento, Henrique Cristóvão Garcia do Nascimento, Abdias do Nascimento Filho

Abdias do Nascimento Net Worth

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1914

Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011 ) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician.

1929

Born in Franca, São Paulo state, Nascimento attended public school as a child and joined the military in 1929.

1930

In the 1930s Nascimento was a member of the Brazilian Integralist Action, a fascist party.

1938

He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1938, and graduate degrees from the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies (1957) and the Oceanography Institute (1961).

1939

From 1939 to 1941, Nascimento traveled throughout South America with a group of poets who called themselves the "Santa Hermandad Orquidea", or "Holy Brotherhood of the Orchid."

At the Municipal Theater of Lima, Peru, they attended a performance of Eugene O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones with a blackfaced white actor in the leading role.

Then and there, he decided to create a black theater in Brazil to fight against racism.

In Argentina, Nascimento spent a year with the "Teatro del Pueblo" (People's Theater) in Buenos Aires, where he learned the technical and performance aspects of theater.

Returning to São Paulo, he was imprisoned, having been convicted in absentia by the civilian court for the same incident of resisting racial discrimination for which he had been excluded from the Army.

While in prison at the Carandiru Penitentiary, he created the Convict's Theater, in which prisoners wrote, directed, and performed in their own plays and musical productions.

1944

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).

When released, Nascimento moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he founded the Black Experimental Theater (Teatro Experimental do Negro, TEN) in 1944.

1945

TEN premiered on May 8, 1945, with a production of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, surprising skeptical critics with a presentation that was highly acclaimed for its technical and dramatic effectiveness.

With intense activity in theatrical production, TEN also was responsible for stellar initiatives in black activism, such as the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1945–46), the Conference of Brazilian Blacks (1949), and the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950).

1950

A resolution of the 1950 congress advocated the need for a Black Arts Museum in Brazil, and the Black Experimental Theater embraced the project.

1968

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.

Many artists donated works and the first exhibition was held in 1968 at Rio de Janeiro's Museu da Imagem e do Som (Museum of Image and Sound).

The Black Experimental Theater organized the cast for the play Orfeu da Conceição, by Vinicius de Moraes, which was later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus.

Nascimento became a leader in Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in 1968.

From 1968 to 1981 Nascimento was very active in the international Pan-African Movement and was elected vice-president and Coordinator of the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas.

1969

For the next decade Nascimento was a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, including the Yale School of Drama (1969–1971), and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he founded the chair in African Cultures in the New World, Puerto Rican Studies Program in 1971.

He held the position of Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Buffalo.

Nascimento also taught at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria.

1983

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.

He served as Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for the Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian People and Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship.

Nascimento returned to Brazil in 1983 and was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT).

There, his focus was supporting legislation to address racial problems.

1994

In 1994 he was elected to the Senate and served until 1999.

2004

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.

In 2004 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace.

2009

A biography of Nascimento by the journalist Sandra Almada was published in 2009 as part of the Retratos do Brasil Negro series.

2010

He was officially nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

2011

Nascimento suffered from diabetes and died on 23 May 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, due to cardiac arrest.