Lorraine Hansberry tells the fascinating story of the brave and talented woman who, almost single-handedly, overcame the racial obstacles that made for a segregated American theatre in the years following World War II. Hansberry was just twenty-nine years old when her play A Raisin in the Sun opened in 1959--an era wher her very existence as a black, female writer wwas considered unusual. The play was an overnight sensation, earning its author the double distinction of being the youngest playwright and first black person to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. In Hansberry's own words, A Raisin in the Sun "tells the truth about people... We have among our miserable and downtrodden ranks people who are the very essence of human dignity. That is what, after all the laughter and tears, the play is supposed to say."
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY, twenty-eight years old, was back in Chicago, and she was about to become a star. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee, Carl Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, James Baldwin, South Side, Langston Hughes, Sidney Poitier, United States, Paul Robeson, Sidney Brustein, Attorney General, Martin Luther King, Supreme Court, Civil War, Greenwich Village, New Haven, Dore Schary, Nannie Hansberry, Uncle Leo, Hansberry Enterprises, Jerome Smith, Jim Crow, Ruby Dee New!
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY, twenty-eight years old, was back in Chicago, and she was about to become a star. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee, Carl Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff, James Baldwin, South Side, Langston Hughes, Sidney Poitier, United States, Paul Robeson, Sidney Brustein, Attorney General, Martin Luther King, Supreme Court, Civil War, Greenwich Village, New Haven, Dore Schary, Nannie Hansberry, Uncle Leo, Hansberry Enterprises, Jerome Smith, Jim Crow, Ruby Dee New!
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- A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry on 19 pages
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography (Signet) by Robert Nemiroff on 12 pages
- Lorraine Hansberry by Susan Sinnott on 5 pages
- James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by William J. Weatherby in Back Matter
- A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook) by Tennessee Williams on page 53
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- Stirring Up Justice: Writing and Reading to Change the World by Jessica Singer Early on page 48
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