Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play ''A Raisin in the Sun'', highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. 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?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case ''Hansberry v. Lee''.After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper ''Freedom'', where she worked with other black intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggles for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry also wrote about being a lesbian and the oppression of gay people. She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34 during the Broadway run of her play ''The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window'' in 1965. Hansberry inspired the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", whose title-line came from Hansberry's autobiographical play. Provided by Wikipedia
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The sign in Sidney Brustein's window : a drama in three acts. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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The sign in Sidney Brustein's window : a drama in three acts. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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Les blancs : the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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A matter of colour : documentary of the struggle for racial equality in the USA / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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A raisin in the sun : a drama in three acts. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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A raisin in the sun by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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A raisin in the sun and The sign in Sidney Brustein's window / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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The movement : documentary of a struggle for equality. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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The sign in Sidney Brustein's window : a drama in three acts / by Lorraine Hansberry. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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Lorraine Hansberry's The sign in Sidney Brustein's window. by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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Les blancs: a drama in two acts / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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A raisin in the sun / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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The collected last plays / by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
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To be young, gifted and black by Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965, Nemiroff, Robert
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To be young, gifted, and black : Lorraine Hansberry in her own words / by Nemiroff, Robert
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To be young, gifted, and black; Lorraine Hansberry in her own words. by Nemiroff, Robert
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To be young, gifted and black : Lorraine Hansberry in her own words / by Nemiroff, Robert
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To be young, gifted, and black : a portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in her own words / by Nemiroff, Robert
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Understanding A raisin in the sun : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents / by Domina, Lynn
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A Raisin in the sun
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