Photo by Joseph Turner Keiley, 1898 (printed 1901). From the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Object number S/NPG.79.26 Native American (Yankton Dakota), Music, Education, Activism Zitkala-Ṡa (Red Bird / Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) Zitkala-Ṡá wrote several works exploring the tensions of holding Indigenous cultural identities, while operating within a hostile, assimilationist mainstream world. Her books …
Photo from Little Manila Rising, littlemanila.org Filipina American, History, Historic Preservation, Activism, Education Dawn Mabalon (1972-2018) Dr. Dawn Mabalon was born in 1972 in Stockton, California, the daughter and granddaughter of Filipino American farmworkers. A passionate scholar who cared deeply about Filipino American history, Dawn Mabalon’s background and love for her roots shaped both her …
Photo by O. A. (Ole Anders) Vik, ca 1927, Denver Public Library Special Collections, Western History Collection, X-31841 Native American (Lakota), Education, Children’s Folklore Rosebud Yellow Robe Frantz (Lacotawin) (1907-1992) Rosebud Yellow Robe was a Native American educator and culture broker who taught schoolchildren about the realities of Plains Indian life through traditional stories, crafts, …
Photo from The Peachite Vol. II, No. 2, Folk Festival Number, March 1944. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. African American, Music, Folklore, Education Willis Laurence James (1900-1966) Willis Laurence James was a musician, composer and music director, educator, concert violinist, lecturer, folklorist, and ethnomusicologist of African American religious and secular music traditions of the …
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 …
Photograph from Anna Julia Cooper Collection, Howard University African American, Education, Activism Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1859-1964) Dr. Anna Julia Cooper championed education for Black women and working adults. Among the most educated women of her day, she wrote one of the first statements of Black feminist thought. Born in bondage in 1858 in Raleigh, …