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Born · March 14, 1914
Died · March 23, 2011 (97 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Franca, São Paulo, Brazil
Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who 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.
Ele Mesmo (Imagem de Arquivo)
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2024
Self (archive footage)
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2020
Self (archive footage)
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2020
Self
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2020
Himself
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2017
Self
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2008
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2004
Self
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1989
Himself
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1988
Self
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1983
(segment "Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver")
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1962
Chico
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1959