Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African American, playwright, and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.
Lorraine Hansberry was the fourth child born to Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real esta...
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Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African American, playwright, and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.
Lorraine Hansberry was the fourth child born to Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Louise Perry, and niece of the Africanist Professor William Leo Hansberry, after whom the Hansberry Institute of African Studies in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, was named. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
The family moved into an all-white neighborhood, where they faced racial discrimination. Hansberry attended a predominantly white public school while her parents fought against segregation. Hansberry's father engaged in a legal battle against a racially restrictive...
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