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  1. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] 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 .

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  4. Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), American Playhouse (1982) and National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2020). She was previously married to Robert Nemiroff. She died on January 12, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA.

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  6. Mar 21, 2019 · Lorraine Hansberry was born into an America where most of the white population experienced black culture primarily through the lens of white men wearing the audio version of “blackface.” Her life would illustrate just how little Gosden and Correll really knew about the people they were portraying.

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  8. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life.

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