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Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade [1] (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), [2] was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Oct 19, 2009 · Miltona Mirkin Cade, better known as Toni Cade Bambara, was a civil rights activist, writer, teacher, and filmmaker. She was born in 1939 in Harlem, New York. At the age of six, she changed her name to Toni, and in 1970 she added the surname Bambara after finding it among her great-grandmother’s belongings.
Toni Cade Bambara (born March 25, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1995, Philadelphia, Pa.) was an American writer, civil-rights activist, and teacher who wrote about the concerns of the African-American community.
Since 2000, Spelman College’s annual Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference has honored her legacy of involvement, drawing students to engage in scholarship and activism, and to explore the lives of Black/African women.
Biography. Editor, teacher, writer, cultural and community worker, Toni Cade Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade, on March 25, 1939 to Helen Brent Henderson Cade in New York City. Toni spent her childhood and adolescent years with her mother and brother in New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey. Deeply affected by the Black Harlem ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995). Best known for short stories set in the urban landscape of her youth, Toni Cade Bambara's fiction and criticism are informed by her work as educator, social worker, and activist.
Dec 11, 1995 · Toni Cade Bambara, a writer and documentary film maker who was celebrated for her intricate use of Black English in fiction, died on Saturday at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 56 and...
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