Lorraine Hansberry

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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer.

She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.

In Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun, her best-known film, reveals the lives of Black Americans who live under racial segregation.

"What happens to a dream deferred?" Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" says the play's title. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? She received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award at the age of 29, becoming the first African American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, suing a restrictive contract, and finally prompting the Supreme Court to hear Hansberry vs. Lee.

Hansberry joined the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she worked with intellectuals like Paul Robeson and W. E.

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Du Bois.

Much of her research during this period was concerned with the liberation struggle in Africa and its global consequences.

She died of cancer at the age of 34.

"To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" was inspired by Hansberry's song "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black."

Early life and family

Lorraine Hansberry, the youngest of four children born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, a thriving real estate broker and Nannie Louise (born Perry), a driving school coach and ward committee member.

Her father bought a house on the South Side of Chicago in 1938, unleashing the wrath of some of their white neighbors. The former's court efforts to pressure the Hansberry family out culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hansberry v. Lee, 311 (1940). In Shelley vs. Kraemer, 334 US 1 (1948), the restrictive covenant was considered contestable but not inherently flawed; these covenants were later declared unconstitutional.

Carl Hansberry was also a champion of the Urban League and NAACP in Chicago. Both Hansberrys were active in the Chicago Republican Party. Carl died in 1946 when Lorraine was 15 years old; "American bigotry killed him," she later said.

Popular black people, including sociology professor W. E. B., routinely visited the Hansberrys, including sociology professor W. E. B.'s. Langston Hughes, poet, singer, actor, and political activist Paul Robeson, singer, actor, and feminist activist, and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens are among Du Bois, poet Langston Hughes, poet, actor, and activist Jesse Owens.

William Leo Hansberry, Carl Hansberry's brother, founded the African Civilization section of Howard University's History Department. Lorraine was taught: "About all, there were two things that were never to be betrayed: the family and the race."

Lorraine Hansberry has a number of relatives, including director and playwright Shauneille Perry, whose eldest child is named after her. Taye Hansberry, the actress' grandniece, is the actor. Aldridge Hansberry, a flutist, percussionist, and composer, is her cousin.

Lisa Hansberry, Nina Simone's daughter Lisa, was the godmother to her.

Education and political involvement

Hansberry graduated from Betsy Ross Elementary in 1944 and Englewood High School in 1948. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she immediately became politically active with the Communist Party USA and established a dormitory. "The only one I knew who could whip up a fresh picket sign with her own hands at any time or occasion," Hansberry's classmate Bob Teague said.

Despite her mother's disapproval, she worked on Henry A. Wallace's Democratic presidential campaign in 1948. She spent the summer of 1949 in Mexico studying painting at the University of Guadalajara.

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