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Feb 24, 2018 · 49K views 6 years ago #Biography. Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned "A Raisin in the Sun". Learn about...
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Jan 10, 2018 · 50K views 6 years ago. 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 Jackson and...
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Jun 16, 2017 · This video features rare footage of Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright and activist most known for her play "A Raisin in the Sun." Lorraine Hansberry in "The Black Experience in Drama."...
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The granddaughter of a formerly enslaved person, Lorraine Hansberry was born into a family that was active in the Black community of Chicago. She was raised in an atmosphere suffused with activism and intellectual rigor. Her uncle William Leo Hansberry was a professor of African history. Visitors to her childhood home included such Black luminaries...
Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin for two years and she briefly attended the Art Institute in Chicago, where she studied painting. Desiring to pursue her longtime interest in writing and theater, she then moved to New York to attend the New School for Social Research. She also began work for Paul Robeson's progressive Black ne...
Hansberry met Jewish publisher and activist Robert Nemiroff on a picket line and they were married in 1953, spending the night before their wedding protesting the execution of the Rosenbergs. With support from her husband, Lorraine Hansberry left her position at Freedom, focusing mostly on her writing and taking a few temporary jobs. She soon joine...
Lorraine Hansberry completed her first play in 1957, taking her title from Langston Hughes' poem, "Harlem." "A Raisin in the Sun" is about a struggling Black family in Chicago and draws heavily from the lives of the working-class tenants who rented from her father. There are strong influences from her own family on the characters as well. “Beneatha...
Lorraine Hansberry was commissioned to write a television drama on the system of enslavement, which she completed as "The Drinking Gourd," but it was not produced. Moving with her husband to Croton-on-Hudson, Lorraine Hansberry continued not only her writing but also her involvement with civil rights and other political protests. In 1964, "The Move...
Hansberry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1963 and she died two years later on January 12, 1965, at age 34. Hansberry's funeral was held in Harlem and Paul Robeson and SNCC organizer James Forman gave eulogies.
As a young, Black woman, Hansberry was a groundbreaking artist, recognized for her strong, passionate voice on gender, class, and racial issues. She was the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. She and her words were the inspiration for Nina Simone's song "To Be Young Gifted and Black." In 2017, she ...
“Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of A Raisin in the Sun.” Literary Ladies Guide.“Lorraine Hansberry Biography.” Chicago Public Library.McKissack, Patricia C. and Fredrick L. Young, Black and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. Holiday House, 1998.- Jone Johnson Lewis
Feb 20, 2020 · Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at the far too young age of thirty-four. In those few decades, however, she nevertheless became “the first Black woman to have her play produced on Broadway...
Jan 23, 2018 · Most everyone is familiar with actress Lorriane Hansberry and her phenomenal work in the classic film A Raisin In The Sun. However, not many people know about her creativity and her extensive work in activism.
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Jan 19, 2018 · Lorraine Hansberry lived her life in defiance of what Toni Morrison called the "distraction" of racism. Tracy Strain's documentary captures just how much Hansberry loved her people and the ways in which cast her lot with the suffering.
