<< /Resources 508 0 R Although critical reception was cool, supporters kept it running until Lorraine Hansberry's death in January. The book circles a few points very dutifully even as we feel Colbert itching to rove. I feel I am learning how to think all over again, she wrote anonymously to a lesbian magazine. >> /Annots 497 0 R /Contents 513 0 R /Contents 357 0 R >> /Contents 516 0 R << >> << In 1937, when she was 7, the family moved into a . endobj She attended the Intercontinental Peace Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1952, when Paul Robeson was denied a passport to attend. By Dan Sheehan. /Contents 567 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. [74], On June 9, 2022, the Lilly Awards Foundation unveiled a statue of Hansberry in Times Square. /Resources 418 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 438 0 R /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R << << 105 0 obj endobj 149 0 obj /Annots 332 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page "[52], In a Town Hall debate on June 15, 1964, Hansberry criticized white liberals who could not accept civil disobedience, expressing a need to "encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical." /Type /Page Lipari, Lisbeth. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /Type /Page ft), reveals the /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /Pages 1 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << >> 35 0 obj /Type /Page She grew up on the south side of Chicago, a place rigidly segregated by race. >> 119 0 obj /Type /Page << /Type /Page You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. endobj /Type /Page << 127 0 obj << Lorraine Hansberry. /Resources 592 0 R "[53], Hansberry was a critic of existentialism, which she considered too distant from the world's economic and geopolitical realities. /Contents 225 0 R /Resources 226 0 R 49 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 378 0 R >> /Type /Page /Resources 574 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 161 0 R 162 0 obj /Type /Page 134 0 obj [60], Hansberry's ex-husband, Robert Nemiroff, became the executor for several unfinished manuscripts. /Resources 469 0 R In 2018, a new American Masters documentary,"Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," was released, by filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain. The case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court as Hansberry v. Lee, when their case was overturned, but on a technicality. 40 0 obj In doing so, he blocked access to all materials related to Hansberry's lesbianism, meaning that no scholars or biographers had access for more than 50 years. /Annots 654 0 R 111 0 obj /Contents 525 0 R >> endobj << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 446 0 R w !1AQaq"2B #3Rbr /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /Type /Page /Contents 453 0 R /Resources 634 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Performers in this pageant included Paul Robeson, his longtime accompanist Lawrence Brown, the multi-discipline artist Asadata Dafora, and numerous others. >> endobj /Contents 498 0 R To quote Simone de Beauvoir, an important influence, Hansberry could not think in terms of joy or despair but in terms of freedom. And she could not think of freedom as a destination but as a practice, full of intervals, regressions. >> /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Author (Lorraine Hansberry) [42], In April 1959, as a sign of her sudden fame just one month after A Raisin in the Sun premiered on Broadway, photographer David Attie did an extensive photo-shoot of Hansberry for Vogue magazine, in the apartment at 337 Bleecker Street where she had written Raisin, which produced many of the best-known images of her today. /Annots 602 0 R /Resources 346 0 R /Resources 403 0 R /Contents 582 0 R >> << /Resources 538 0 R >> Lorraine Hansberry, Robert A. Nemiroff (Editor), Spike Lee (Commentaries by), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating 814 ratings published 1992 8 editions. /Annots 629 0 R She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 47. endobj The curtain rises on a dim, drab room. /Resources 529 0 R << As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The alarm sounds. /Resources 424 0 R After her death, he became the executor for her unfinished manuscripts. /Type /Page /Resources 352 0 R In 1999 Hansberry was posthumously inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. /Resources 235 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R endobj [12] At the newspaper, she worked as a "subscription clerk, receptionist, typist, and editorial assistant"[15] besides writing news articles and editorials. >> /Resources 421 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Contains materials created primarily by Hansberry from 1950 until her death in 1964. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. >> /Contents 585 0 R 34K views 4 years ago Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned "A Raisin in the Sun". /Resources 358 0 R /Contents 558 0 R << /Type /Page It narrowly missed Hansberry, who was 7 years old. /Annots 353 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 590 0 R /Resources 391 0 R >> /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Annots 617 0 R << /Length 109 /Type /Page /Resources 310 0 R At this time, she and her husband separated, but they continued to work together. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. /Annots 548 0 R [10] Lorraine was taught: "Above all, there were two things which were never to be betrayed: the family and the race."[8]. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [56], In 1959, Hansberry commented that women who are "twice oppressed" may become "twice militant". When she was 8 years old, Hansberrys family deliberately attempted to move into a restricted neighborhood. 14 0 obj She goaded herself on, even in the hospital: Comfort has come to be its own corruption.. << Lorraine Hansberrythe iconic playwright and activist whose 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun is . << >> /Parent 1 0 R 65 0 obj << ThoughtCo. The Youngers are a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago. 128 0 obj << Best Play Prize Won By a Negro Girl, 28, The New York Herald Tribune declared. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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. /Parent 1 0 R Lorraine graduated from Englewood High School in 1948 and attended the University of Wisconsin. In 1948, Lorraine enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she took art classes. endobj "[57], Hansberry was appalled by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place while she was in high school. /Resources 211 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page 24 0 obj Hansberry seemed to anticipate it all. endobj /Type /Page Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. >> /Annots 395 0 R 112 0 obj >> /Contents 213 0 R /Annots 230 0 R >> [35][27], Written and completed in 1957, A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, becoming the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. A woman wakes, tries to rouse a sleeping child. The statue will be sent on a tour of major US cities.[75]. /Contents 270 0 R HANSBERRY: It's because that since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] In 1956, her husband and Burt DLugoff wrote the hit song, Cindy, Oh Cindy. Its profits allowed Hansberry to quit working and devote herself to writing. /Contents 420 0 R << /Resources 604 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> In 2004, A Raisin in the Sun was revived on Broadway in a production starring Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Phylicia Rashad, and Audra McDonald, and directed by Kenny Leon. Lorraine Hansberry was commissioned to write a television drama on the system of enslavement, which she completed as "The Drinking Gourd," but it was not produced. /Parent 1 0 R Beneatha is me, eight years ago, she explained. [5][13] She wrote in support of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, criticizing the mainstream press for its biased coverage. >> /Annots 187 0 R Hansberry's writings also discussed her lesbianism and the oppression of homosexuality. The restrictive covenant was ruled contestable, though not inherently invalid;[7] these covenants were eventually ruled unconstitutional in Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948). endobj The decision is nevertheless considered to have been an early weakening in the restrictive covenants that enforced segregation nationally. /Resources 631 0 R She is desperate for her lover (I consumed her whole) stuck in the hospital, she is hungry to return to her play. There is the now famous story of her confrontation with Robert Kennedy, who as attorney general in 1963 convened a group of Black activists and intellectuals. >> << According to Baldwin, Hansberry stated: "I am not worried about black men--who have done splendidly, it seems to me, all things considered.But I am very worriedabout the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop standing on that Negro woman's neck in Birmingham. /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Type /Page When she was 8 years old, Hansberry's family moved house and desegregated a white neighborhood that had a restrictive covenant. /Annots 293 0 R When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. >> 69 0 obj 43 0 obj << /Parent 1 0 R 75 0 obj [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. /Contents 252 0 R /Resources 547 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 618 0 R 33 0 obj /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R A screenplay soon followed, to which Lorraine Hansberry added more scenes to the storynone of which Columbia Pictures allowed into the film. /Annots 196 0 R /Type /Page "No sooner had she joined Freedom, which had been founded by Paul Robeson as part of his tightening embrace of the Communist Party line in the increasingly frigid Cold War than she was serving as a participant-correspondent: she accompanied the 'Sojourners for Truth and Justice,' a group of 132 black women from 15 states which was convened in September 1951, in Washington by the long-time activist Mary Church Terrell 'to demand that the Federal Government protect the lives and liberties' of black Americans. /Type /Page Fact 2: Lorraine was raised in the South Side of Chicago. /Contents 354 0 R /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB /Parent 1 0 R 81 0 obj The show ran for more than two years and won two Tony Awards, including Best Musical. This script was called "superb" but also rejected.[40]. endobj Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 263. 11 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << There are strong influences from her own family on the characters as well. << /Type /Page /Contents 576 0 R [69], In 2013, Hansberry was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. endobj Her uncle was William Leo Hansberry, a scholar of African studies at Howard University in Washington, D.C. 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. /Type /Page /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. /Resources 394 0 R Patricia and Fredrick McKissack wrote a children's biography of Hansberry, Young, Black, and Determined, in 1998. /Resources 637 0 R /Annots 377 0 R /Annots 380 0 R /Parent 1 0 R >> endobj [67] There is a school in the Bronx called Lorraine Hansberry Academy, and an elementary school in St. Albans, Queens, New York, named after Hansberry as well. /Resources 532 0 R 76 0 obj >> /Parent 1 0 R In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on BroadwayA Raisin in the Sun. 74 0 obj . In 1964, "The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality" was published for SNCC (StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee) with text by Hansberry. /Resources 316 0 R Later, an FBI reviewer of Raisin in the Sun highlighted its Pan-Africanist themes as "dangerous". /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /Contents 267 0 R A civil rights activist her entire life, Hansberry began identifying herself as a feminist and lesbian in the 1950s. >> "[22], In 1952, Hansberry attended a peace conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, in place of Robeson, who had been denied travel rights by the State Department. << /Parent 1 0 R Lorraine Hansberry speech, "The Nation Needs Your Gifts", given to Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 550 0 R /Annots 572 0 R [72], In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain. /Parent 1 0 R [65], In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Hansberry in the biographical dictionary 100 Greatest African Americans.[66]. 141 0 obj 147 0 obj [5] Hansberry inspired the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", whose title-line came from Hansberry's autobiographical play. Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, had so much of the truth of Black peoples lives been seen on the stage, her friend James Baldwin would later recall. Lewis, Jone Johnson. /Filter /DCTDecode 92 0 obj /Annots 190 0 R 15 0 obj >> 88 0 obj Another dim, drab room. /Annots 509 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page Les Blancs ("The Whites") is an English-language play by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry.It debuted on Broadway on November 15, 1970 and ran until December 19, 1970. >> /Type /Page 63 0 obj /Type /Page Biography. >> << /Annots 401 0 R >> /Resources 370 0 R /Type /Page /Resources 256 0 R /Annots 308 0 R << /Resources 220 0 R << The latter was the first play written by an African-American woman to be staged on Broadway. When Hansberry died at 34 on Jan, 12, 1965, of pancreatic cancer, the arts community mourned. endobj << endobj Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), p. 195. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for A Raisin En The Sun Hansberry, Lorraine Book at the best online prices at eBay! /Parent 1 0 R It was the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. /Resources 625 0 R Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 49. /Annots 224 0 R endobj The influence of her parents' social network, combined with her early exposure to racism, helped radicalize Hansberry when she was still young. "[51], James Baldwin described Hansberry's 1963 meeting with Robert F. Kennedy, in which Hansberry asked for a "moral commitment" on civil rights from Kennedy. 86 0 obj /Resources 247 0 R << /Type /Page 135 0 obj >> << Colbert pays forensic attention here to scripts, articles and stories, but takes less intellectual interest in the jottings and journals to the self that was feverish, exultant, wary in its sexuality. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R [2] Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 US Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /Annots 368 0 R /Type /Page The 29-year-old author became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The playwright Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page >> /Parent 1 0 R Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in the first Black-owned and -operated hospital in the nation. endobj /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 272 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Hansberry's uncle, William Leo Hansberry, was a distinguished professor of African history at Howard University and had made a name for himself as a specialist in African antiquity. /Type /Page 77 0 obj She held fund-raisers, and studied alongside Alice Childress and W.E.B. The success of the hit pop song "Cindy, Oh Cindy", co-authored by Nemiroff, enabled Hansberry to start writing full-time. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre of San Francisco, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in her honor. /Annots 503 0 R 18 0 obj endobj << endobj /Contents 537 0 R /Parent 1 0 R The youngest of four siblings, she was seven years younger than Mamie, her. %PDF-1.3 Walter Lee, Jr. and Ruth are composites of Hansberrys brothers, their wives and her sister, Mamie. /Type /Page >> /Filter /FlateDecode 89 0 obj [12][23], On June 20, 1953,[12] Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff, a Rejecting the limits placed on her race and her gender, she employed her writing and her life as a social activist to expand the meaning of what it meant to be a black woman. endobj Hansberry's formative years were spent in the social and political milieu of the black middle class: a comfortable material existence coupled with a real commitment to . endobj /Parent 1 0 R /XObject << >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent, she wrote. Anyone can read what you share. /Resources 214 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page Restrictive covenants, in which white property owners agreed not to sell to blacks, created a ghetto known as the Black Belt on Chicagos South Side. /Type /Catalog Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was the first American playwright to create a realistic portrayal of African-American urban family life. 1935. /Parent 1 0 R endobj 68 0 obj << One of Lorraine Hanberry's brothers served in a segregated unit in World War II. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 154 0 obj /Contents 456 0 R (2021, January 2). endobj /Parent 1 0 R << /Resources 277 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 613 0 R [45], In 1963, Hansberry participated in a meeting with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, set up by James Baldwin. >> endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), pp. endobj /Parent 1 0 R Du Bois. She wrote under an alias, using her initials L.H., for fear of discrimination. endobj /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 554 0 R >> /Contents 522 0 R /Contents 282 0 R >> /Resources 457 0 R Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34. /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 483 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Two years later, Hansberry left college and moved to New York to pursue her writing career. $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ? /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. During a protest against racial discrimination at New York University, she met Robert Nemiroff, a Jewish writer who shared her political views. /Resources 649 0 R Dr. J. Carl Gregg 2 February 2020 frederickuu.org For this rst Sunday of Black History Month, I would like to invite us to focus on the fascinating life of Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at the far too young age of thirty-four. endobj /Parent 1 0 R 148 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R [64] In the introduction of the live version, Simone explains the difficulty of losing a close friend and talented artist. Oh, what a lovely, precious dream. She underwent surgeries on June 24 and August 2 of 1963. [3][4][5] Before her marriage, she had written in her personal notebooks about her attraction to women. endobj /Contents 288 0 R /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Contents 381 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Lena's children, Walter and Beneatha, each have . /Count 156 /Parent 1 0 R In 2013, more than twenty years after Nemiroff's death, the new executor released the restricted material to scholar Kevin J. /Contents 303 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Near the end of Charles J. Shields' biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I've read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square Park that Hansberry bought with the money she earned from the success of her play "A Raisin in the Sun."It was her home for the final five years of her life, until her death in 1965 at the age of 34. /Resources 505 0 R endobj 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. Heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, it has since closed. (October/November 2012), ". 25 0 obj /Type /Page /Annots 605 0 R DuBois, poet Langston Hughes, actor and political activist Paul Robeson, musician Duke Ellington and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. She and her words were the inspiration for Nina Simone's song "To Be Young Gifted and Black.". Du Bois, whose office was in the same building, and other Black Pan-Africanists. endobj /Resources 322 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, the youngest of four children born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, a prominent real estate broker, and his wife, Nannie Louise Hansberry, a schoolteacher and ward committeewoman. /Annots 596 0 R /Contents 588 0 R /Annots 623 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R [18] The following year, she collaborated with the already produced playwright Alice Childress, who also wrote for Freedom, on a pageant for its Negro History Festival, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Douglas Turner Ward, and John O. 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Sidney Poitier expressed interest in taking the part of the son, and soon a director and other actors (including Louis Gossett, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis) were committed to the performance. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 290 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 261 0 R 9 0 obj [41] Over the next two years, Raisin was translated into 35 languages and was being performed all over the world. 146 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 315 0 R 3 0 obj endobj /Annots 506 0 R endobj Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry - Mollie Godfrey 2021-01-15 %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz She was the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics Circle award. /Annots 542 0 R Fast Facts: Lorraine Hansberry /Annots 347 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The play, with themes both universally human and specifically about racial discrimination and sexist attitudes, was successful and won a Tony Award for Best Musical. /Annots 476 0 R /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. /Type /Page /Type /Page /Type /Page endobj /Resources 349 0 R /Contents 450 0 R 39 0 obj >> "A Raisin in the Sun" is about a struggling Black family in Chicago and draws heavily from the lives of the working-class tenants who rented from her father. /Contents 462 0 R 108 0 obj [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. In 1960, during Delta Sigma Theta's 26th national convention in Chicago, Hansberry was made an honorary member. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers. A Raisin In The Sun - Lorraine Hansberry - full text of play.pdf - Google Drive. /Resources 325 0 R >> /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 384 0 R /Resources 265 0 R /Type /Page 78 0 obj /Contents 531 0 R >> -Nina Simone, "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black," after Lorraine Hansberry. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Contents 519 0 R endobj stream Carter, Stephen R. "Commitment amid Complexity: Lorraine Hansberry's Life in Action". >> /Type /Page Put off by the 'frantic dispatches about the "terrorists" and "witchcraft societies" in the colony' that preceded the December 1952 publication of her article, Hansberry criticized anti Mau Mau coverage that only 'distort[ed] the fight for freedom by the five million Masai, Wahamba, Kavirondo, and Kikuyu people who [made] up the African people of Kenya.'". /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 306 0 R /Contents 573 0 R This stringency is curious, given Hansberrys openness when it came to tactics, her insistence that the movement required a multipronged approach. endobj endobj Du Bois. With support from her husband, Lorraine Hansberry left her position at Freedom, focusing mostly on her writing and taking a few temporary jobs. >> Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/lorraine-hansberry-biography-3528287. Paul Robeson and SNCC organizer James Forman gave eulogies. Her uncle William Leo Hansberry was a professor of African history. Content distributed via the University of Minnesota's Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. She was also the youngest playwright and the first Black winner of the prestigious Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play. endobj >> >> /Type /Page 50 0 obj << Her impatience, her greed for work, for thought for more life is palpable until the end. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 260 0 R 100 0 obj >> 96 0 obj In 1937, the family moved to a white neighborhood the story she revisits in Raisin. A segregationist landowners association challenged the sale of the house. 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