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   Sep 24, 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry Biography. Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry’s four children.

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   Sep 24, 2024 · Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born in Chicago on May 19, the daughter of a prominent real estate broker and the niece of a Howard University professor of African history.

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   Sep 23, 2024 · 'A Raisin In The Sun' By Lorraine Hansberry Is A Great Play And Deserves Its Place In The Canon. But Not For The Reasons You Think.

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   Sep 19, 2024 · A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry and was the first play written and performed on Broadway by an African American female writer. Since then, A Raisin in the Sun has won many awards, including beating the esteemed writer Tennessee Williams to the 1959 Drama Critics Circle Award.

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   Sep 19, 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun has been chosen for their anniversary production to tour this Autumn. A powerful piece of theatre, this excellent production ...

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   Oct 7, 2024 · A Raisin in the Sun is a drama in three acts by Lorraine Hansberry, first published and produced in 1959. The play’s title is taken from ‘Harlem,’ a poem by Langston Hughes. The play is a penetrating psychological study of a working-class Black family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s.

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   Who is Lorraine Vivian Hansberry?

   • Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is an American playwright best known for her play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). She is the first Black woman to have written a play performed on Broadway. Her work, including her most famous piece, highlights the lives of Blacks under racial segregation in Chicago. People know her for her play and as the inspiration behind Nina Simone's song 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black.'

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   When was Lorraine Hansberry born?

   • Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry…

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   What is Lorraine Hansberry known for?

   • Lorraine Hansberry is known for being able to attend college and discover a career as a writer. One of her most famous works is the play "A Raisin in the Sun", whose title is a reference to Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem”, also known as “A Dream Deferred”.

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   How old was Lorraine Hansberry when she died?

   • Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) died at the age of 34 from cancer. She electrified the theatrical world with her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season. More about Lorraine Hansberry

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   Who visited the Hansberry family during Lorraine's childhood?

   • Many prominent African American social and political leaders visited the Hansberry household during Lorraine’s childhood including sociology professor W.E.B. DuBois, poet Langston Hughes, actor and political activist Paul Robeson, musician Duke Ellington and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens.

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   Where does the Hansberry family live in Chicago?

   • The Hansberry family lives at 5330 S. Calumet Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. Hansberry begins school at Betsy Ross Elementary at 61st Street and Wabash Avenue. The Hansberry family moves to 6140 Rhodes Avenue, in an all-white neighborhood near the University of Chicago. Hostile residents attack their home.

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   Sep 19, 2024 · Written in the 50’s but, undoubtedly, ‘a play for all seasons’, Lorraine Hansberry’s breakthrough drama, A Raisin in the Sun, is a thought-provoking piece of theatre that is as pertinent in 2024 as it ever was in 1959, when it first challenged the norms of a still racially segregated Chicago society.