LC control no. | n 79059027 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3552.A473 |
Personal name heading | Bambara, Toni Cade |
Variant(s) | Cade, Toni |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1939-03-25 |
Death date | 1995-12-09 |
Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
Affiliation | Queens College (New York, N.Y.) College of the City of New York (1926-1961). City College Livingston College |
Profession or occupation | Novelists Political activists Feminists College teachers |
Found in | Tales 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) |