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Aug 16, 2023 · 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 ...
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 ...
Contents. Lorraine Hansberry. 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 ...
Jul 8, 2019 · Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930–January 12, 1965) was a playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist. She is best known for writing "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34.
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Sep 4, 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York) was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
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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...
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) was a playwright, writer, and activist. Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. She was the daughter of a real estate entrepreneur, Carl Hansberry, and schoolteacher, Nannie Hansberry, as well as the niece of Pan-Africanist scholar and college professor Leo Hansberry. Her own family’s landmark court ...
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Jan 17, 2022 · Lorraine’s father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, was a real-estate speculator and a proud race man. When Lorraine was seven years old, the family bought a house in a mostly white neighborhood.
