Lorraine Hansberry Research Paper

Lorraine Hansberry was born into a wealthy family in the woodlaw neighborhood in the south side of chicago, on May 19th 1930. She was the last of the four children in her family. Her parents Carl and Nannie perry were very politically active and jumped right into opportunities. For example Hansberry's parents crossed the word “Negro” off of her birth certificate (Racial identities of newborns were required than) and wrote “black”.Lorraine was in a family that was very comfortable economically. When she was five, She received a white fur coat for christmas. Her parents told her to wear it to school, but when she did so, the other students beat her up in order to get the coat. Which is ironic because Hansberry would rather be poor like the other students and disliked being known as rich or wealthy and would do things like wear keys around her neck to be the same as the other children, only because she could only
Hansberry started off with visual art through drawings, but then transitioned into writing. Some say that her drawing are almost as noteworthy as her writing.she lived in new york in 1950 and began writing investigative journalism for actor/activist Paul Robeson's “independent radical black newspaper”.Her father died at the early age of 51 and hansberry believed that it was because of her father's “constant battle with the forces of racism”, but this would lead her to write in the part of “Big Walter” and fashion this character after her own father. She than began her first play “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1956 and finished it in 1959. At age 28 she was known as one of “America's major dramatists”.in 1964, she died at the age of 34 due to pancreatic cancer. But she would always be remembered as a lover of life, politically active and progressive, and an amazing