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     • Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling Black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. Hansberry was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. Throughout her life she was heavily involved in civil rights. She died at 34 of pancreatic cancer.
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   • 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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   Is there a documentary about Lorraine Hansberry?

   • In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain. [ 76 ] On September 18, 2018, the biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, written by scholar Imani Perry, was published by Beacon Press. [ 77 ]

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   • The granddaughter of a freed enslaved person, and the youngest by seven years of four children, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry 3rd was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. Hansberry’s father was a successful real estate broker, and her mother was a schoolteacher. Her parents contributed large sums of money to the NAACP and the Urban League.

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   • Lorraine Hansberry has many notable relatives, including director and playwright Shauneille Perry, whose eldest child is named after her. Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. Her cousin is the flautist, percussionist, and composer Aldridge Hansberry. Hansberry was the godmother to Nina Simone 's daughter Lisa. [ 11 ]

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   How did Lorraine Hansberry die?

   • Although critical reception was cool, supporters kept it running until Lorraine Hansberry's death in January. 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.

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   Is Lorraine Hansberry in the Hall of Fame?

   • Heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it has since closed. In 2017, Hansberry was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [ 75 ] In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain.

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   Aug 16, 2023 · Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun' and was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award.

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   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. Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 at Provident Hospital on ...

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   Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright and writer, the first African-American female author to have a play on Broadway. She wrote about racial segregation, African liberation, and lesbian identity, and died of cancer at 34.

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   Jul 8, 2019 · Learn about the life and achievements of Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. She was also a civil rights activist, a lesbian, and a writer of essays and screenplays.

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   Oct 16, 2024 · Learn about Lorraine Hansberry, the first African American woman to have a play on Broadway. Find out about her life, education, career, and legacy in this comprehensive article from Britannica.

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   • Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on B...
   • Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin in 1948–50 and then briefly the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Roosevelt Univer...
   • Lorraine Hansberry wrote the plays A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964). Her promising career was cut short b...

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   Oct 21, 2024 · Learn about the life and work of Lorraine Hansberry, the first African American woman to have a play on Broadway. Discover how her childhood, family and political views influenced her writing and legacy.

10. www.nytimes.com › 2021/04/14 › booksThe Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

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    Apr 14, 2021 · A central aim of Colbert’s biography, as with Perry’s book and Strain’s documentary, is to reclaim Hansberry as the radical she was.