Lorraine Hansberry
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Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. Her family challenged legal segregation, giving rise to the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. This might have inspired Hansberry to accomplish a first: The opening of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway on March 11, 1959, which was adapted to screenplay form for two feature films. No black female author had done the former before. The play's storyline about the Youngers, a black family trying out an integrationist vision of life in spite of societal racism, resonates with Hansberry's father's legal battle from a decade earlier. Alt…
Also known as
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
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Known For
American Playhouse
1982 · TV
The David Susskind Show
1959 · TV
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Movie
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017 · Movie
A Raisin in the Sun
2008 · Movie
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972 · Movie
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019 · Movie
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Movie
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
1969 · Movie