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Abdias do Nascimento (b. 1914 in Franca, Sao Paulo) is a Brazilian black artist, actor, and politician.

Abdias attended public school as a child and joined the military in 1930, but was discharged for disorderly conduct a few years later. He then travelled South America with a group of poets calling themselves the "Santa Irmandad Orquidea", or the "Holy Brotherhood of the Orchid" and developed an interest for the dramatic arts. Returning to Rio de Janeiro, he founded the Black Experimental Theater in 1944. He performed in Orfeu da Conceiçao, a play by Vinicius de Moraes which was later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus
. He became a leader in Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in 1968. After 14 years of working in universities in the United States, he returned to Brazil and in 1982 was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies. There his focus was supporting legislation to address racial problems.

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