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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.
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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...
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.
Jan 17, 2022 · Their friends took up a collection while she was in the hospital, not to pay for her care but to keep “Sidney Brustein” running. The play closed on January 12, 1965, the night Hansberry died.
Swimming alongside Sighted Eyes in this sea of adulation is Imani Perry’s equally impressive 2018 biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which won the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the Publishing Triangle Shilts-Grahn Award for Nonfiction, and designation as a 2018 New York Times Book Review Notable Book. There are, moreover ...
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Lorraine Hansberry Photos. Date of Death: January 12, 1965 (34) Birth Place: Chicago, IL, USA
