Women of courage : an exhibition of photographs based on the Black Women Oral History Project, by Judith Sedwick; sponsored by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Radcliffe College, c1984. HOLLIS collection-level record: 007598802 African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Margaret Walker Alexander […]
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Photo of Ulysses S. Young, Dean of Instruction at Bowie State University, 1955 courtesy of Special Collections and Archives at Thurgood Marshall Library. Anthropologist, Folklorist Ulysses S. Young (1914?-1991) Anthropologist/Folklorist Ulysses S. Young was born in Enoree, South Carolina, around 1914, and was raised in Philadelphia. He earned a B.A. (1936) from West Virginia State
Ralph Ellison, photographed in 1960 by a United States Information Agency staff photographer. NARA reference number 306-PSA-61-8989. African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) Ralph Waldo Ellison worked as an interviewer and researcher in New York City’s Federal Writers’ Project, documenting African American urban history and folklore on his way to becoming an
Photo from kaainamomona.org. Kumu hula, educator, cultural activist Edith Kenao Kanaka‘ole (1913-1979) Born as Edith Ke‘kuhikuhiipu‘uoneonaali‘iokohala Kenao in Honomu, Puna, Hawai‘i, “Aunty Edith,” as she is respectfully and affectionately known, was a teacher, dancer, composer, chanter, ethnobotanist, activist, and entertainer who left an indelible impact on the Hawaiian cultural community. A revered and loved kumu
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Photo by Gordon Parks African American, Documentary Photography, Film, Music Gordon Parks (1912-2006) Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born the youngest of fifteen children in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. His parents, Andrew Jackson Parks and Sarah Ross Parks, made a modest living through farming. After his mother’s death, Parks left home at age
Photo provided to NEA in 2006 by Esther Martinez; used here courtesy of NEA Folk and Traditional Arts division. Native American (Tewa Pueblo), Linguistics, Education, Cultural Activism Esther Martinez (P’oe Tsáwa) (1912-2006) Esther Martinez was born in 1912 to parents who worked in the fields in Ignacio, Colorado. After she was five, her grandparents raised
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Image from The University of New Mexico Newsroom Mexican American, Folklore, Music, Lexicography Rubén Cobos (1911-2010) At age 16, Rubén Cobos and his penniless family arrived in Albuquerque from San Antonio, to say goodbye to his older sister Consuelo, a Presbyterian teacher who died from TB in a sanatorium a month later. Having escaped Piedras
Photo from the cover of Social Change in Contemporary China: C.K. Yang and the Concept of Institutional Diffusion, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Chinese American, Sociologist Ch’ing-k’un (CK) Yang (Yáng Qìngkūn) (1911-1999) Also known as Ch’ing-K’un Yang; Qingkun Yang, C. K. Yang was a sociologist whose work contributed to scholarship about religious life in China
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Photographer unknown. Circa 1960. Photo from Tuskegee University Archives. African American, Ethnography, Sociology Lewis Wade Jones (1910-1979) Dr. Lewis Wade Jones was one of the major ethnographers of Southern rural Black life in the 20th century, at a time when formerly enslaved Blacks transitioned from sharecropping to more mechanized ways of living and work. Lewis
Portrait of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, professor of history. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Ethnography, History Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995) Dr. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick was an internationally acclaimed historian, intellectual, and educator. His transformative documentation of the lives, struggles, and cultures of Black people spans much of the