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…

  • Writing
  • Born 19 May 1930
  • Died 12 January 1965 (age 34)
  • Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • 8 credits

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Most-watched Lorraine Hansberry films currently: A Raisin in the Sun (2008), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2019), Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017), To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969).

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Selected TV credits: The David Susskind Show (1959).

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