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Biography. Lorraine Hansberry, child of a cultured, middle-class black family but early exposed to the poverty and discrimination suffered by most blacks in America, fought passionately against racism in her writings and throughout her life. Best known for her plays, Hansberry was the first black woman to write a Broadway drama; A Raisin in the ...
14 de mai. de 2018 · Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children born to Carl A. Hansberry and Nanny Perry Hansberry on Chicago's South Side. Hansberry's formative years were spent in the social and political milieu of the black middle class: a comfortable material existence coupled with a real commitment to continued political agitation for productive change in the racial climate of the United States .
22 de jul. de 2019 · Lorraine Hansberry singing. Photograph by Molly Malone Cook, circa 1957-1958. Perry surmises — accurately, I believe on the basis of my own long immersion in the poet’s world — that Oliver is writing of Hansberry in this passage from Our World , her adoring memoir of and eulogy for the love of her life, describing Cook’s graciously unnamed previous lover:
18 de jan. de 2022 · Charles J. Shields’s authoritative biography of one of the twentieth century’s most admired playwrights examines the parts of Lorraine Hansberry’s life that have escaped public knowledge: the influence of her upper-class background, her fight for peace and nuclear disarmament, the reason why she embraced Communism during the Cold War, and her dependence on her white husband―her best ...
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8 de fev. de 2022 · Radical Vision. A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. by Soyica Diggs Colbert. 288 Pages, 6.12 x 9.25 in, 19 b-w illus.
4 de mai. de 2020 · Hansberry had a relatively bourgeois, liberal, middle-class upbringing, in Chicago, but it was ringed by violence. When her father, a real-estate entrepreneur, bought a house in a white ...
Explore the inner life and works of the activist, playwright and author of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry. Narrated by actress LaTanya Richardson Ja...
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