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7 de mai. de 2024 · She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry’s four children. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. Her uncle was William Leo Hansberry, a scholar of African studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Há 4 dias · Lorraine Hansberry (19 May 1930–12 January 1965), at twenty-eight years old, became the first female African American playwright who had a drama produced on Broadway with A Raisin in the Sun (1959).
7 de mai. de 2024 · 1963. Hansberry becomes involved in the civil rights movement and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and confronts Attorney General Robert Kennedy on the administration’s efforts against racism. Hansberry is diagnosed with cancer. Medgar Evers is killed in Jackson, Miss. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his “I Have a Dream” speech.
15 de mai. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York) was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
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- Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on B...
- Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin in 1948–50 and then briefly the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Roosevelt Univer...
- Lorraine Hansberry wrote the plays A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964). Her promising career was cut short b...
30 de abr. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun using inspiration from her years growing up in the segregated South Side of Chicago. Her father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, was a crusader against that very segregation.
1 de mai. de 2024 · February 26, 2019. Without question, Lorraine Hansberry ’s A Raisin in the Sun is one of the most important plays ever written about Chicago. Emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative, it vividly shows an African-American family’s struggles to escape the shackles of segregation on the city’s South Side.
19 de mai. de 2024 · May Hansberry was the first Black woman whose play was produced on Broadway, and one of the many reasons why this is a must-read. Debuting in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun follows the Youngers, a multigenerational Black family doing their best to survive in the hyper-segregated south Chicago.
