found: Author's Dramas para negros e prólogo para brancos, 1961.
found: Thoth, jan./abril 1997:title page (senador Abdias Nascimento) page 11 (took his seat in the Senado Federal in Mar. 1997)
found: Encic. de lit. bras., 1990:page 959 (Nascimento, Abdias (Franca, SP, 1914- ); teatrólogo, ator, artista plástico, contador, dipl. ciências econômicas, professor universitário)
found: Diário de Pernambuco, viewed May 25, 2011(Abdias do Nascimento; d. May 24, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro)
found: Home and exile, 2013:pre-publication preface (Abdias Nascimento rejected the official nomenclature's usage of "do" in his name)
found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed March 4, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Nascimento, Abdias do; Abdias do Nascimento; poet, dramatist, educator, painter, political figure; born 1914 in Brazil; served in the army (1930-1936); was black activist at Frente Negra Brasileira (United Black Front); founder, director, playwrighter of theater group Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) (1944-1964); convened Comité Democrático Afro-Brasileiro (Afro-Brazilian Democratic Committee) (1945); was president of the National Convention of Blacks, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1945, 1946); co-founded Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) (1940s); founded Black Arts Museum, Rio de Janeiro (1968); exiled in United States (1968); lecturer, Yale School of Dramatic Arts (1969); visiting scholar, Wesleyan University (1969-1970); member of the faculty, State University of New York, Buffalo (1976-1981) and created chair of African Culture in the New World; taught at the Department of African Languages and Literatures (University of Ife, Nigeria) (1976-1977); participated and organized many Pan-African conferences; returned to Brazil (1981); professor of black studies, Pontifical Catholic University, São Paulo; founded Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute (IPEAFRO); elected to the House of Deputies (1982); elected to the Senate (1990), reelected (1997); member of Rio de Janeiro State Council of Culture (1990); state secretary at Secretariat for the Defense and Promotion of Afro-Brazilian Peoples (SEAFRO) (1991); has written or edited twenty books, plays, and collections of essays on Afro-Brazilian culture and politics; died 23 May, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)