Last Updated: 25 Mar, 2023 | Views: 454
Age: 56
Profession: Author
Other Profession(s): Writer, Political Activist, Educator
Famous For: Wrote About The Concerns Of The African-American Community
Higher Education: Queens College with a B.A.
About (Profile/Biography):
Toni Cade Bambara (Miltona Mirkin Cade) was born on March 25, 1939, in Harlem, New York, and died on December 9, 1995. Among her many accomplishments, she was an African-American author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. As a child, she was referred to as Miltona, but in 1970, she changed her name to include the name Bambara, the name of the West African ethnic group. Her great-grandmother's name had been written on a sketchbook in a trunk among her other belongings, so she decided to include it in her name.
Career:
Toni Cade Bambara is a member of the Black Arts Movement and of black feminism during the 1960s. Bambara was active in the movement.
1970: Nikki Giovanni wrote poems, short stories, and essays for her anthology The Black Woman.
1971: A collection of stories and tales for Black Folk contains writings by Langston Hughes, Ernest J. Gaines, Pearl Crayton, Alice Walker, and other writers.
In 1981: She was the editor of Another Bridge Called My Back by Gloria Anzalda and Cherre Moraga, another groundbreaking feminist anthology by women of color.
From 1960 to 1970: Bambara wrote 15 short stories, which were collected in Gorilla, My Love, in 1972.
1980: An event of healing coincides with the holding of a community festival in Claybourne, Georgia, the setting of her 1980 novel The Salt Eaters.
May 13, 1985: The Philadelphia headquarters of the black liberation group MOVE was massively attacked by police, leading to a massive police assault on Bambara's script.
Awards:
2013: Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Death:
A colon cancer diagnosis was made in 1993 for Toni Cade Bambara, who died two years later in Philadelphia.
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