Left: Lane Ryo Hirabayashi. Photo from the Los Angeles Times, by Jake Fabricius Photography. Right: James Hirabayashi. Photo from Nichi Bei Weekly Report Japanese American, Ethnic Studies, Activism, Museum Work James Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (1926-2012), (1952-2020) Father and son, James Hirabayashi and Lane Hirabayashi were anthropologists who often collaborated, but also pursued distinct areas …
Photo from the Voces Oral History Center, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin. Puerto Rican, Sociology, Activism Frank Bonilla (1925-2010) Dr. Frank Bonilla was an academic researcher and early pioneer of Puerto Rican Studies, serving as the first director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at the City University of …
Photo from 2007 NEA National Heritage Fellow announcement, photograph by Michael G. Stewart Japanese American, Literature, Activism, Ethnography Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (1917-2007) Violet Kazue de Cristoforo was a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellow, recognized as a writer, translator, and editor of poetry, specifically the Japanese forms of haiku and tanka. …
Photo from the Boggs Center Chinese American, Cultural Theory, Philosophy, Activism Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) Dr. Grace Lee Boggs was a community builder, activist, and philosopher, whose actions and writings have been widely influential for organizers, academics, and artists invested in work and forging practices that transform society. Grace Chin Lee was given the name …
Photo from from the 1925 Howard University yearbook. The Bison (Howard University 1925): page 58. African American, Ethnography, Activism Ophelia Settle Egypt (1903-1984) Born in a small town near Clarksville, Texas, in 1903, Ophelia Settle graduated from Howard University with a BA in 1925. After teaching for a year at the Orange County Training School …
Photo from the National Women’s History Museum Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore, Federal Writers’ Project, Activism Aurora Lucero-White Lea (1894-1963) Aurora Lucero-White Lea was born to parents Julia Romero and Antonio Lucero in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Throughout her life, Lucero-White was committed to the Hispanic community of New Mexico, and she strived to maintain and continue …
Portrait of Dr. Charles Johnson, sociologist at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee [between 1935 and 1945]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Call Number: LC-USW3- 019352-C [P&P], Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-019352-C (b&w film neg.) African American, Sociology, Education, Ethnography, Activism Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956) Charles S. Johnson, born in Bristol, Virginia in 1893, was the son …
Photo courtesy of Phyllis C Beatty-Yasutake African American, Ethnography, Activism Samuel Shinkle Taylor (1886-1956) Samuel S. Taylor has been widely acclaimed as one of the most effective interviewers of ex-slaves in the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s. Born in 1886 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Reverend Marshall W. Taylor and Catherine Hester Taylor, Samuel Taylor …
Photographer unknown; public domain image Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore, Federal Writers’ Project, Activism, Education María Adelina Isabel Emilia (Nina) Otero-Warren (1881-1965) A woman of many talents and interests, Adelina “Nina” Otero Warren was a politician and advocate who advanced issues relevant to the early 20th-century nuevomexicano community. Otero Warren is best known outside of New Mexico …
