Folklore

William John Faulkner

Photo courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, Special Collections, Fisk Photograph Collection, William J. Faulkner ful.out.pho001.  Congregational Minister, Civil Rights Activist, Folklorist, Master Storyteller William John Faulkner (1891-1987) The Reverend Dr.William John Faulkner collected, preserved, and shared a significant repertoire of folktales and stories of slavery learned directly from a former slave. […]

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María Cadilla de Martínez

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,

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María Adelina Isabel Emilia (Nina) Otero-Warren

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

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Cleofas Martínez Jaramillo

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

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Will West Long (Willí Westì)

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

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt

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

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