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Lorraine Hansberry
LORRAINE
HANSBERRY
By: Annie Malcolm







Playwright
Political Author
1930 Chicago
Youngest of 4
Parents intellectuals and activists

BACKGROUND
Woodland area of Chicago
All-white neighborhood
“all-white” public school
Reflected in “A Raisin in the Sun”

DURING THIS ERA…
Segregation still legal and widely spread through the south Northern states had no official policy, but most were generally segregated
Chicago was strictly divided among black and white neighborhoods Hansberry’s family was one of the first to move into a white neighborhood

A RAISIN IN THE
SUN
First African-American play on Broadway
Published 1959
Received NY Drama Award Critics Award
Youngest and first African American to receive it

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

PLOT OVERVIEW
Negro family-Youngers
Insurance check $10,000
Matriarch-house
Walter Lee- liquor store
Beneatha-medical school, Africa
Autobiography

WHAT WAS
GOING ON

 Rosa parks
 Civil rights movement DREAMS RESPRESENTED IN THE PLAY AND LATER
ECHOED BY KING

“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“I have a dream…where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.” HER WORKS
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) .
A Raisin in the Sun (film), screenplay
(1961).
A Raisin in the Sun (film), produced (2008).
On Summer (Essay).
The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for equality (1964).
The Sign in Sydney Brustein’s Window (1965).
To be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine
Hansberry in Her own Words (1969).
Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays/ by
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