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Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), 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.
Photograph of a police officer restraining a young protester. Many writers in the 1960s and 1970s were profoundly affected by the civil rights movement, including activist Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara’s writing focuses on the need for societies to adapt without sacrificing their identities.
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...
A prolific writer of short fiction, Toni Cade Bambara began her career with stories reflecting the language, perspective, and sensibility of African Americans and their concerns in the 1960s and 1970s. Her stories encapsulate the everyday adventures, fantasies, and aspirations of innocents on the verge of experience.
Dec 15, 1995 · Toni Cade Bambara, a writer and filmmaker who raised her eloquent voice to tell the tale of black oppression, has died after a two-year battle with colon cancer. She was 56.
Toni Cade Bambara may not have gained as much acclaim and fame as her contemporaries Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, but she ranks with them in terms of influencing subsequent generations...
