Toni Cade Bambara
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Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade, was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Toni Cade Bambara
Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, New York City, spann
Toni Cade Bambara
…Brooklyn), Queens, and Jersey City. At the age of six, she changed her name from Miltona to Toni. Bambara's mother had lived in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, and she encouraged her children to daydream, read, and write. As a child, Bambara spent a lot of time in the New York Public Library, and was inspired…
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a historian, writer, curator, and archivist regarded as an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1926, the New York Public Library purchased his collection of 4,600 books, pamphlets, art, and manuscripts on Black culture and held them at the 135th Street Branch Library, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The multi-talented Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the musical comedy Brown Buddies on Broadway, 1930
Poster for Run, Little Chillun
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is emblematic of the mixture of high-class society, popular art, and virtuosity of jazz.