Toni Cade Bambara...

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Early life and education Miltona Mirkin Cade was born in Harlem, New York, to parents Walter and

Helen (Henderson) Cade. She grew up in Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant (Brooklyn), Queens and New Jersey. At the age of six, she changed her name from Miltona to Toni, and then in 1970 changed her name to include the name of a West African ethnic group, Bambara, after finding the name written as part of a signature on a sketchbook discovered in a trunk among her great-grandmother's other belongings.^[1][3][4] With her new name, she felt it represented "the accumulation of experiences", in which she had finally discovered her purpose in the world.^[5] In 1970, Bambara had a daughter, Karma Bene Bambara Smith, with her partner Gene Lewis, an actor and a family friend.^[6]

Bambara attended Queens College in 1954, where almost the entire undergraduate student population were white. At first, she planned to become a doctor, but her passion for arts directed her to become an English major.^[6] As Bambara had a passion for jazz and different forms of art in general, she became a member of the Dance Club of Queens College. She also took part in theater, where she was designated as stage manager and costume designer. Bambara was among those who participated in folk singing when it first emerged in the 1950s, when the songs had a political message inscribed in them.^[6] Bambara graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in Theater Arts/English Literature in 1959.^[1]

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