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 …
Image from Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Folklore, Literature Arthur Huff Fauset (1899-1983) Arthur Huff Fauset was born in New Jersey in 1899. His father, Redmon Fauset, was an African American minister. His mother, Bella Huff, was Jewish. Fauset grew up in Philadelphia and earned his AB (1921), an MA (1923) and …
Photo of Mary Kawena Pukui taken when she worked at the Bishop Museum. She is working on the Hawaiian-language newspaper titled “Ka Na’i Aupuni.” Courtesy of Nanea Armstrong-Wassel and Kawena Pukui’s daughter, Patience Namaka Bacon. Native Hawaiian, Folklore, Narrative, Linguistics, Dance, Music Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniohiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonua Pukui (1895-1986) Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniohiʻiakaikapoliopelekawahineʻaihonua Pukui was born in 1895, during the …
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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 …
American Association of University Women-New Mexico. “Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert.” (1976). MSS 303 BC, Women of New Mexico, Catalog of AAUW exhibit on “Women in New Mexico”, Albuquerque Museum, February 1-June 6, 1976, Center for Southwest Research, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore, Foodways, Federal Writers’ Project Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert …
Image from EnciclopediaPR, enciclopediapr.org. Puerto Rican, Folklore María Cadilla de Martínez, PhD (1886-1951) María Cadilla de Martínez was born in 1886 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, thirteen years before Puerto Rico’s official independence from Spain in 1898. Cadilla’s life and career focused on promoting Boricua (an indigenous term often used to refer to Puerto Rican-ness) folklore, …
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 …
Photo Credit: Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, Mrs. Cleofas Martinez Jaramillo In Her Wedding Hat, Photographer: Anderson Studio, Date: 1901, POG Negative Number 009920 Nuevo Mexicana, Folklore Cleofas Martínez Jaramillo (1878-1956) In the late 19th/early 20th-century, nuevomexicana Cleofas Martínez Jaramillo recorded her memories of life in New Mexico. In contrast to her professional folklorist …
Photo c. 1925 from The Museum of the Cherokee Indian Native American (Eastern Band Cherokee), Autoethnography, Folklore, Crafts Will West Long (Willí Westì) (1870-1947) Will West Long, recognized as a master mask carver, collaborated with multiple anthropologists over a span of 60 years to document the music, dance, drama, folklore, and medicinal/spiritual traditions of the …
Author Charles Waddell Chesnutt at the age of 40. Photo taken by Chesnutt Bros. (Cleveland, Ohio) between 1897 and 1898. From the Cleveland Public Library Image Collection African American, Literature, Folklore, Activism Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) Charles Chesnutt was an attorney, author and activist who drew on folklore to illuminate the complexities of transitioning into …