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A Raisin in the Sun, from left, Louis Gossett Jr, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier. A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born in Chicago on May 19, the daughter of a prominent real estate broker and the niece of a Howard University professor of African history.
The Hansberry family moves to 6140 Rhodes Avenue, in an all-white neighborhood near the University of Chicago. Hostile residents attack their home. A state judge rules that the Hansberrys have to m...
The Hansberrys and the NAACP win the U.S. Supreme Court Case Hansberry v. Lee.Richard Wright publishes Native Son.Hansberry enters Englewood High School at 6201 S. Stewart Avenue and wins a writing award for a short story about football during her freshman year.
Her father dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Mexico, where he had planned to relocate his family to escape U.S. racism.
Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers and becomes first African American to play major league baseball in the 20th century.
Hansberry graduates from Englewood High School and enters University of Wisconsin in Madison.President Truman ends racial segregation in the U.S. armed forces.Hansberry leaves the University of Wisconsin in February and studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago during the summer. She moves to New York in the fall.Gwendolyn Brooks is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen.Hansberry becomes the youngest staff member of Freedom, published by Paul Robeson.She meets Robert Nemiroff at a demonstration against the exclusion of black athletes at New York University.Hansberry attends International Peace Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay on behalf of Paul Robeson, who was forbidden to leave the U.S. by the State Department.
Oct 21, 2024 · A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Barrymore Theatre in New York on March 11, 1959, to great popular and critical success. It was the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway and the first to be directed by an African American in over half a century.
In the summer of 1960, the cast and crew of A Raisin in the Sun began filming on location in four areas of Chicago: University of Chicago. Michigan Ave. Kitty Kat Club (a gay bar on 611 E. 63rd) 4930 W. Hirsch St., featured below. Screenshot, trailer 'A Raisin in the Sun' (1961) 4930 W. Hirsch Street, Chicago, IL. Google maps.
A Raisin in the Sun, American film drama, released in 1961, that was based on Lorraine Hansberry ’s acclaimed play of the same name about the urban African American experience. A Raisin in the Sun(From left) Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands in A Raisin in the Sun (1961). A Raisin in the Sun follows a poor Black family ...
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6 days ago · A Raisin in the Sun was the first play of its kind, with a fully black cast apart from one white actor. It explores the story of a black American family living in Chicago’s south side during the ...
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A Raisin in the Sun: Directed by Daniel Petrie. With Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands. A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
