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May 22, 2019 · When Lorraine Vivian Hansberry died on January 12, 1965, her play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window was at the end of a three-month run at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. It was the second play written by a black woman to appear on Broadway.
- Hansberry Studied Art.
- She Wrote Letters to The Ladder Magazine on LGBT issues.
- Hansberry Coined The Phrase to Be Young, Gifted and Black.
Before she began her career as a dramatist, Hansberry studied art at three institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she took art classes in 1948 but left before graduating; the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, where she took a painting-focused workshop in 1949; and Chicago’s Roosevelt University, where she had more art classes i...
Hansberry was gay, but although she discussed her sexuality with some in her private life, according to The New Yorker, “it was never a public matter in her lifetime”— she lived in New York, where homosexuality was then illegal. “She wasn’t out in the traditional sense,” Hansberry biographer Imani Perry told NPR in 2018. “It would have been very di...
By 1964, Hansberry was experiencing severe health issues; it turned out she was suffering from pancreatic cancer, but Nemiroff and her doctors chose not to disclose her diagnosis to her because they believed it would be better if she didn’t know. Hansberry was dying of the disease when she left the hospitalwhere she was being treated on May 1, 1964...
Jan 11, 2018 · January 12, 1965 — Lorraine Hansberry dies of cancer of the duodenum at the age of 34 at University Hospital. The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window closes.
The first in-depth documentary on the playwright, journalist and activist Lorraine Hansberry is presented by American Masters. See trailer and photos of the trailblazer who died at age 34.
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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 [...]
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Jan 12, 2018 · On this day in 1965, Lorraine Hansberry died of cancer at the age of just 34. Her funeral in Harlem was attended by over 600 mourners, including Sammy...
