Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian, 1930-1965
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Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian, 1930-1965
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Lorraine Vivian
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1930-1965
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Nemiroff, Lorraine Hansberry, 1930-1965
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Lorraine Hansberry
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1930-1965
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Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois - died January 12, 1965, New York City), African-American playwright, writer and activist, is best known for her play, "A Raisin in the Sun." Born in 1930 in Chicago to real estate broker, Carl Hansberry and Nannie Louise Perry (her uncle was the Africanist scholar, William Leo Hansberry), Lorraine grew up on the south side of Chicago. "A Raisin in the Sun" was inspired by her father's legal battle against a racially restrictive covenant that prohibited African-American families from buying homes in certain neighborhoods.
In 1950 Hansberry moved to New York City to become a writer and served as an editor for Paul Robeson's newspaper, "Freedom." In 1959, "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play written by an African-American woman produced on Broadway. The play received the New York Drama Critics Award making Hansberry the youngest and first African American to receive the Award. Hansberry's second play, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," was mounted as she battled pancreatic cancer. She died in 1965 at age 34.
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https://viaf.org/viaf/71424350
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50017744
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50017744
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q461758
http://cbw.iath.virginia.edu/women_display.php?id=21186
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African American actors
African American authors
African American dramatists
African American families
African American men
African American political activists
African Americans
African American theater
African American women
African American women
American drama
American drama
Black author
Families, Black
Civil rights workers
Communists
Communists
Dramatists, American
Home ownership
Imperialism
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Political activists
Race relations
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Women in the theater
Women in the theater
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Chicago
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