Racial Tension In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

During the 1950s racial tension and prejudice existed and did not allow people of minorities to receive equal rights. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry, the author, expresses how racial tension was during the 1950s by introducing a character who appears briefly but is a significant character to the story named Mr. Linder.
Mr. Linder expresses racial tension between majority and minority in the play A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry expresses this by showing that he is the only white person in this play. Mr. Linder is the chairmen of the Welcoming Committee for the Clybourne Park, the neighborhood that Mrs. Younger is planning to move into with the insurance money she received from her husband’s death. The conflict between Mr. Linder and the Younger family originates around Mr. Linder trying to convince the Younger family to not move into Clybourne Park. “Majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background” (Hansberry 117-118). The conflict between Mr. Linder and the Younger family helps support the theme of family unity in this play.
Linder is a significant person in this play because he affects the many themes this book displays, such as family unity and equal rights. Mr. Linder tries to sound like a friendly person that is trying to solve the problems that deal with racism in the 1950s but is actually just wanting to protect the white neighbors of Clybourne Park. “You must be aware of some of the incidents which have happened in various parts of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas… most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other” (116). Mr. Linder tries to convince the Younger to stay out of Clybourne Park without offending the family. The Younger family still takes offense to Mr. Linder’s remarks and feel they should not be told where to