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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.
First appearing on January 19, 2018, in the PBS documentary series American Masters, the film went on to win both a Peabody Award and an American Historical Association Film Award, while Strain received a 2019 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Television Movie or Special.
Jul 22, 2019 · Upon her untimely death at only 34, her model and mentor Langston Hughes — from whose verse Hansberry had borrowed the title of her revolutionary play — wrote in a poem dedicated to her: “In time of silver rain, / The earth puts forward new life again.”.
May 22, 2019 · When Hansberry died at 34, she was gorgeously, extravagantly mourned. Her homegoing at Morningside Park’s Church of the Master drew a crowd of more than seven hundred people—too many to sit in the pews. James Foreman of SNCC and actors Paul Robeson and Ruby Dee gave remarks.
Mar 21, 2019 · She left Chicago just in time to miss the Cicero race riot in the summer of 1951 when a mob of about 4,000 whites attacked an apartment building and local police allowed them to do over $20,000 in damage - around $200,000 today. Instead, Hansberry began contributing to a widely-circulated Socialist paper right at the start of McCarthy era ...
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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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.
