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Lorraine Hansberry

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Born: May 18 1930

Died: 1111 01 19651965

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. Hansberry inspired Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black".

She was the first Black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play "A Raisin in the Sun," highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dealt with intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggle for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry has been identified as a lesbian, and sexual freedom is an important topic in several of her works. She died of cancer at the age of 34.

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Lorraine Hansberry

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Books from Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography

A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window

The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality

Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection CD: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out

Nine Plays by Black Women

What Use are Flowers?

Understanding a Raisin in the Sun: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Contemporary Black Drama: From A Raisin in the Sun to No Place to Be Somebody

A Raisin in the Sun - Multiple Critical Perspectives

A Raisin in the Sun (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

A Raisin in the Sun (KnowledgeNotes)

A Raisin in the Sun (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

Raisin in the Sun, A (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

The African American Audio Experience

A Raisin in the Sun von L. Hansberry - Textanalyse und Interpretation: in englischer Sprache, mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Prüfungsaufgaben mit Lösungen (Königs Erläuterungen Spezial)