Toni Cade Bambara

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995) was an American author, social activist, and college professor.Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939, in New York City. She grew up in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Bambara was married to one man by the name of James, sadly though James suffered from erectile dysfunction. This problem made them unable to reproduce. She attended schools in New York City and the southern United States. She said that she would change her name to Toni while in kindergarten, and in 1970 added "Bambara" when she learned that her grandmother had taken that name as well.She studied English and theater at Queens College and mime in France in the 1960s. She also became interested in dance before pursuing graduate work in African fiction at the City College of New York. Bambara taught at Rutgers University and Spelman College.