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Order of Rio Branco, in the degree of Official (2001) and Comendador (2006)

UNESCO Toussaint Louverture Prize for Extraordinary Service to the Cause of Combatting Racism and Racial Discrimination (2004) Samuel Johnson, English critic, biographer, essayist, poet, and lexicographer, regarded as one of the greatest figures of 18th-century life and letters.

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He also taught in Nigeria, at the University of Ife, in 1976. Also a poet, dramatist, and Pan-African activist, Nascimento created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas (1982).

Schickele was active as a foreign correspondent, editor, and, from 1915 to 1919, as the publisher of the Weissen Blätter…

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At the Municipal Theater of Lima, Peru, they attended a performance of Eugene O'Neill's play Nascimento became a leader in Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in 1968.

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Abdias do Nascimento (Franca, 14 de março de 1914 — Rio de Janeiro, 23 de maio de 2011) foi ator, poeta, escritor, dramaturgo, artista plástico, professor universitário, político e ativista dos direitos civis e humanos das populações negras brasileiro.

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Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011 ) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician. This article was originally published in the Britannica Book of the Year, an annual print publication that

René Schickele, German journalist, poet, novelist, and dramatist, whose personal experience of conflict between nations made his work an intense plea for peace and understanding. Abdias do Nascimento, Brazilian writer, painter, activist, and scholar (born March 14, 1914, Franca, Braz.—died May 24, 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Braz.

From 1968 to 1981 Nascimento was very active in the international Nascimento returned to Brazil in 1983 and was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Nascimento suffered from diabetes and died on 23 May 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, due to cardiac arrest.

Brazilian Order of Cultural Merit (2007)

), was an outspoken and vibrant defender of Afro-Brazilian civil rights who supplemented his activism with his artistic endeavours.

In 1970, Abdias do Nascimento became a full Professor at the State University of New York, Buffalo, founding the Chair on African Cultures in the New World at the Center for Puerto-Rican studies. Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo, he was the … From 1939 to 1941, Nascimento traveled throughout South America with a group of poets who called themselves the "Santa Hermandad Orquidea", or "Holy Brotherhood of the Orchid." Johnson once characterized literary biographies as “mournful narratives,” and he believed that he lived “a life radically wretched.” Yet his…Sir Stephen Spender, English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist “new writing” of that period.

United Nations Award for Relevant Services in Human Rights (2003)

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