After the Harlem Renaissance, Ringgold's childhood home in Harlem became surrounded by a thriving arts scene – where figures such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes lived just around the corner. They raised her in an environment that encouraged her creativity. Ringgold's mother was a fashion designer and her father, as well as working a range of jobs, was an avid storyteller. : 24 Her parents, Andrew Louis Jones and Willi Posey Jones, were descendants of working-class families displaced by the Great Migration.
Faith Ringgold was born the youngest of three children on October 8, 1930, in Harlem Hospital, New York City.
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