Lorraine Hansberry
1930-1965
American playwright and painter, whose A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1959) was the first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
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Click on your favorite player above to see a clip of Lorraine Hansberry talking about "Raisin in the Sun".
Lorraine Hansberry was born
in Chicago as the daughter of a prominet real-estate broker and the niece
of a Harvard University professor of African history. Her parents were
intellectuals and activists, and her father won an antisegregation case
before the Illinois Supreme Court, upon which the events in A Raisin
in the Sun was loosely based. She studied at the University of Wisconsin
for two years, and in 1950 she moved to New York, where she started her
career as a writer. - (Mrs. Robert Nemiroff)
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Click on your favorite player above to see a scene from "Raisin in the Sun" with Danny Glover.