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Bambara, Toni Cade

LC control no.n 79059027
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LC classificationPS3552.A473
Personal name headingBambara, Toni Cade
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Variant(s)Cade, Toni
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1939-03-25
Death date1995-12-09
Place of birthNew York (N.Y.)
Place of deathPhiladelphia (Pa.)
AffiliationQueens College (New York, N.Y.) College of the City of New York (1926-1961). City College Livingston College
Profession or occupationNovelists Political activists Feminists College teachers
Found inTales and stories for black folks, 1971.
The Black woman, 1970: t.p. (Toni Cade)
Those bones are not my child, 1999: galley (d. 1995)
Black Women in America, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Bambara, Toni Cade; Miltona Mirkin Cade; fiction writer, political activist, black feminist; born 25 March 1939 in New York, New York, United States; depicted the black urban experience; BA in Theater Arts and English from Queens College (1959); won the John Golden Award for Fiction (1959), and the Long Island Star's Pauper Press award for nonfiction; social worker for the Harlem Welfare Center (1959-1960); taught at City College of New York; served as director and adviser for the Theater of the Black Experience; taught in the English department at Livingston College in New Jersey (1969-1970); founding member and officer of the Conference Committee on Black South Literature and Art; associate for the Institute of the Black World; died 09 December 1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)