May 26 — JACOB RIIS
Compassionate photographer, champion of the poor.

Riis’ Sleeping Children

MAY 26, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Feast of VooDoo Economics.

ALSO ON MAY 26 IN HISTORY…
1799 — Black Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin born.
1895 — Socially-aware photographer Dorothea Lange born, Hoboken, New Jersey.
1914 — Social realist photographer Jacob Riis dies, Barre, Massachusetts.
1976 — Nazi sympathizer and philosopher Martin Heidegger dies.
1977 — George Willig climbs World Trade Center, New York City.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

Previously on Arthurmag.com:

1. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Tom Lyttle
2. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – JACKSON MAC LOW
3. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — H. G. Wells
4. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Henri de Saint-Simon
5. Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — Lu Xun