/Annots 569 0 R >> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Marriott Hotel, San Diego, CA, May 27, 2003, "Lorraine Hansberry's Letters Reveal the Playwright's Private Struggle", "The Rockland Palace Dance Hall, Harlem NY 1920", Total Literary Awareness: How the FBI Pre-Read African American Writing, "Pasadena hosts Lorraine Hansberry classic, 'A Raisin in the Sun', "Robert Nemiroff, 61, Champion of Lorraine Hansberry's Works", "Opening the Restricted Box: Lorraine Hansberry's Lesbian Writing", "The Women Who Shaped the Past 100 Years of American Literature", "Internet Broadway Database: The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Production Credits", "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery", New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, "The Nina Simone Database, 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' (1969)", "Boystown unveils new Legacy Walk LGBT history plaques", "Cherry Jones, Ellen Burstyn, Cameron Mackintosh, and More Inducted into Broadway's Theater Hall of Fame", "Ten women added to National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca", "Statue of Lorraine Hansberry Will Be Unveiled in Times Square in June Prior to Touring the Country", Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 19551995, The Black Revolution and the White Backlash, Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color Lorraine Hansberry, Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry's Letters to "The Ladder", Materials about Lorraine Hansberry in the Richard Hoffman - Lorraine Hansberry collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Ad Hoc Committee of Proud Black Lesbians and Gays, Good Shepherd Parish Metropolitan Community Church, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorraine_Hansberry&oldid=1142359789, African-American dramatists and playwrights, American women dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century African-American women writers, African-American history of Westchester County, New York, Activists for African-American civil rights, American civil rights activists (civil rights movement), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. >> /Annots 184 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] It received mixed reviews. /Type /Page << << /Resources 277 0 R /Annots 245 0 R >> >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Sun Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in . /Resources 490 0 R /Resources 355 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /Contents 561 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun /Annots 458 0 R /Resources 535 0 R In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. /Type /Page 17 0 obj endobj /Annots 509 0 R /Contents 480 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert. Paul Robeson and SNCC organizer James Forman gave eulogies. << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 297 0 R /Resources 397 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 578 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 632 0 R 52 0 obj /Resources 337 0 R /Resources 361 0 R endobj << The statue will be sent on a tour of major US cities.[75]. 102 0 obj /Annots 416 0 R I'm going to read an excerpt from my manuscript (the biography of Hansberry that I am writing) which lays out some of the historical context of the period and then begins discussing her involvement in the Left circles of New York City. endobj Two beds are dimly seen, and at the back of the room a dormer window. endobj /Annots 548 0 R [11], Hansberry graduated from Betsy Ross Elementary in 1944 and from Englewood High School in 1948. Lorraine Hansberry Biography - History of Lorraine Hansberry in /Type /Page /Contents 160 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 513 0 R Open your heart to what I mean. /Resources 475 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R Name: Lorraine Hansberry Birth Year: 1930 Birth date: May 19, 1930 Birth State: Illinois Birth City: Chicago Birth Country: United States Gender: Female Best Known For: Playwright and activist. << /Resources 217 0 R endobj Best Play Prize Won By a Negro Girl, 28, The New York Herald Tribune declared. >> /Annots 533 0 R /Annots 311 0 R /Resources 229 0 R << >> Hansberry's classmate Bob Teague remembered her as "the only girl I knew who could whip together a fresh picket sign with her own hands, at a moment's notice, for any cause or occasion". /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] With support from her husband, Lorraine Hansberry left her position at Freedom, focusing mostly on her writing and taking a few temporary jobs. >> >> /Resources 313 0 R /Contents 501 0 R /Type /Page endobj There has been Imani Perrys 2018 book Looking for Lorraine and Tracy Heather Strains 2017 documentary Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart. The pre-eminent Hansberry scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson has a book in the works. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 504 0 R She is bestknown forwriting "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry | Making Gay History /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 627 0 R Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in the first Black-owned and -operated hospital in the nation. [69], In 2013, Hansberry was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. /Resources 241 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was a U.S. writer in the mid-1900s. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 3 0 obj She. << rumination on Hansberry's death, Ossie Davis (who succeeded Sidney Poitier in the role of Walter Lee) put it this way: The play deserved all thisthe playwright deserved all this, and more. /Type /Page [12], In 1950, Hansberry decided to leave Madison and pursue her career as a writer in New York City, where she attended The New School. /Type /Page He also collected Hansberrys unpublished writings, speeches and journal entries and presented them in the autobiographical montage To Be Young, Gifted and Black. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 266 0 R The acceptance of our present condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children. This belief, Colbert argues, was her inheritance. Biography. [64] In the introduction of the live version, Simone explains the difficulty of losing a close friend and talented artist. /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page endobj /Type /Page /Annots 272 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 327 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << >> Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. /Type /Page Nine Radical and Radiant Facts You Should Know About Lorraine Hansberry << /Contents 330 0 R /Contents 228 0 R /Annots 651 0 R "[49] In response to the independence of Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, Hansberry wrote: "The promise of the future of Ghana is that of all the colored peoples of the world; it is the promise of freedom. /Contents 474 0 R /Annots 335 0 R 92 0 obj "A Raisin in the Sun" opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959. Its not incidental, I think, that these asides often have to do with desire. << /Contents 594 0 R /Resources 192 0 R /Type /Page We get rid of all the little bombsand the big bombs," though she also believed in the right of people to defend themselves with force against their oppressors. Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. endobj Living on the Lower East Side, Lorraine was free to explore the life of . >> A screenplay soon followed, to which Lorraine Hansberry added more scenes to the storynone of which Columbia Pictures allowed into the film. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> 29 0 obj /Contents 294 0 R 49 0 obj As literary executor, he edited and published her three unfinished plays: Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers? /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] This is her earliest remaining theatrical work. Thus, Hansberry became deeply familiar with pan-African ideas and the international contours of black liberation at an early age (8).". /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << She and her words were the inspiration for Nina Simone's song "To Be Young Gifted and Black.". /Resources 646 0 R Despite a warm reception in Chicago, the show never made it to Broadway. [20] Hansberry traveled to Georgia to cover the case of Willie McGee, and was inspired to write the poem "Lynchsong" about his case. 26 0 obj 132 0 obj 134 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 258 0 R endobj /Resources 653 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, a successful real-estate broker and Nannie Louise (born Perry), a driving school teacher and ward committeewoman. [24] Hansberry and Nemiroff moved to Greenwich Village, the setting of her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. 122 0 obj << >> /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 373 0 R /Resources 298 0 R endobj << /Resources 265 0 R /Resources 532 0 R >> endobj /Resources 517 0 R endobj /Type /Page /Resources 340 0 R endobj /Type /Page >> /Resources 211 0 R HANSBERRY: It's because that since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation. endobj She underwent surgeries on June 24 and August 2 of 1963. /Type /Page /Annots 647 0 R endobj /Annots 617 0 R /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Annots 344 0 R /Type /Page << \\@!fqYZfd 5"s=s\&r Q Books by Lorraine Hansberry (Author of A Raisin in the Sun) - Goodreads /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page 50 0 obj [3][4] She died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj A Raisin in the Sun Summary. /Contents 252 0 R /Annots 371 0 R << /Contents 375 0 R See also spokeswoman or only. Strange words of praise; meretricious even, in how they can mask the isolation they impose. /Type /Page endobj /Resources 310 0 R 74 0 obj >> Her uncle was William Leo Hansberry, a scholar of African studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. >> << >> << >> /Annots 320 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << She soon joined the first lesbian civil rights organization in the U.S., Daughters of Bilitis, contributing letters about women's and gay rights to their magazine,The Ladder. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. /Contents 516 0 R /Annots 398 0 R 13 0 obj << << /Annots 419 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 288 0 R The title of the song refers to the title of Hansberry's autobiography, which Hansberry first coined when speaking to the winners of a creative writing conference on May 1, 1964: "Though it is a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic to be young, gifted and black. endobj << Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent, she wrote. /Type /Page /Type /Page In 2017, Hansberry was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. 130 0 obj /Type /Page Page Count 384 Genre Bios & Memoirs On Sale 126 0 obj Historical Context of A Raisin in the Sun | Chicago Public Library /Contents 603 0 R Lorraine Hansberry: Her Chicago law story /Resources 607 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page In 1938, her father bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago, incurring the wrath of some of their white neighbors. /Parent 1 0 R The Quiet Lesbian Biography of Lorraine Hansberry - Autostraddle << /Contents 453 0 R /Resources 511 0 R /Resources 637 0 R << /Annots 515 0 R [73], On September 18, 2018, the biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, written by scholar Imani Perry, was published by Beacon Press. The mythos of the first obscures so much of the communality of Hansberrys thinking. 88 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R >> endobj /Resources 247 0 R [40] She was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, among the four Tony Awards that the play was nominated for in 1960. Whites fought back. >> >> A Raisin in the Sun Summary - GradeSaver /Type /Page Look at the work that awaits you! she said in a speech to young writers, calling them young, gifted and Black inspiring the Nina Simone song of the same name. /Contents 219 0 R /Contents 393 0 R 27 0 obj << /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R endobj "[53], Hansberry was a critic of existentialism, which she considered too distant from the world's economic and geopolitical realities. >> /Type /Page Lorraine Hansberry Papers - page 5 Hansberry's development as a playwright and intellectual is well documented, primarily through a number of interviews she gave for print and broadcast media after the success of A Raisin in the Sun. >> endobj \ Episode Notes. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry's four children. Reimagining Biography: the Lorraine Hansberry Papers Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born in Chicago on May 19, the daughter of a prominent real estate broker and the niece of a Howard University professor of African history. It closed on January 12, 1965, the day Hansberry died of cancer at 34. /Contents 558 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Lorraine Hansberry | Legacy Project Chicago