From Milton Mirkin to Toni Cade

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Many writers are influenced by the life they live and the world around them, and Miltona Mirkin Cade is no different. Miltona Mirkin Cade was influenced by the black community and women’s organizations. (www.fembio.org)

Milton Mirkin Cade was born on March 25, 1939 in New York City. As a child she spent most of her years with her mother, Helen Brent Henderson, and her brother, Walter. She and her family moved often but she came to call the communities of New York City and New Jersey home. (www.answers.com)

Miltona Mirkin Cade would later change her name to Toni Cade Bambara. The reason she changed her name? Atop the reason that many writers generally change their names from their birth names, Bambara adopted the name after she had run across her great-grandmother’s sketchbook, which had the name Bambara etched into it. (www.novelguide.com)

She was a smart young woman, she graduated high school six months early, and she had a bright future ahead of her. After finishing high school she attended Queens College and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Theater Arts/ English. This is where her writing career really started; while she was in college she published her first short story, “Sweet Town.” Bambara then did some traveling, in 1962, she would return to finish a Master’s degree in Modern American Fiction at New York City College. (www.fembio.com) (www.answers.com)

A woman of many talents, Miltona Cade was an editor, teacher, writer, cultural and community worker, activist, feminist, and filmmaker. Toni Bambara’s many jobs and talents influenced her writing. While teaching at a city college in 1965, she directed the “Theater of the Black Experience,” along with many other projects. While doing all this she also managed...

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