Lorraine Hansberry's : les blancs / Lorraine Hansberry. 1969.

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Lorraine Hansberry's : les blancs / Lorraine Hansberry. 1969.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian, 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 ...