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 …
Photograph of Mourning Dove taken in the author’s later years. She is wearing traditional Native American apparel and holding a woven basket. 1925. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs at Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). pc085b05f71_95-131 Native American (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes), Ethnography, Literature Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket) (1884-1936) Mourning …
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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 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 …
Portrait of William Jones taken in Chicago, 1907. African American, Autoethnography, Cultural Activism William Jones (Megasiáwa / Black Eagle) (1871-1909) William Jones was the first American Indian to receive a Ph.D in anthropology, although he preferred not to be addressed by the title “Dr.” and is one of the first Native American scholars to publish …
John Wesley Work II photo from Nashville, Tenn. 1911. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Shelf locator: Sc 784.7-F (Fisk University news. Jubilee Singers number. After forty years, 1871-1911.). Frederick Jerome Work photo at the home of Albert C. (Albert Coombs) Barnes , Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania. …
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Composers Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7f947850-e020-0130-79c8-58d385a7b928 African American, Music, Literature, Activism and African American, Music, Theater James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson (1871-1938) …
Photo from nativestudy.com Native American (Oklahoma Cherokee), History, Genealogy Emmet McDonald Starr (1870-1930) Dr. Emmet Starr was an acclaimed historian who documented Oklahoma Cherokee lineages in order to preserve tribal citizenship rights and cultural traditions through his numerous publications. Emmet McDonald Starr was born in 1870 in the Going Snake District in the Cherokee Nation …
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 …