Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling Black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. Photographer unknown. The Lorraine Hansberry Collection. Orginal air date is 05/12/1959 Like “MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey. When Lorraine Vivian Hansberry died on January 12, 1965, her play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window was at the end of a three-month run at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre. "'Love to All, Lorraine" is a one-woman one act play on the life of the late playwright and Civil Rights activist Lorraine Hansberry. She was the first African-American female author who had a play staged on ‘Broadway.’ She is renowned for ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ the play that reflects the lives of ‘Black Americans’ who stayed in Chicago under racial segregation. She is Mostly known for ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ the first play written by an African-American woman to be staged on Broadway. Directed by Woodie King Jr.. With Elizabeth Van Dyke. tags: everybody, himself, lorraine-hansberry, love, lowest, world. Lorraine Hansberry’s collected works include published plays, books, and acting editions of her plays; articles and essays; and audio and video materials, including cast recordings, film and television productions, speeches, and radio and television interviews. #Love #Inspirational #Love You “It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.”-- Lorraine Hansberry . tags: a-raisin-in-the-sun, future. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library.) Playwright Lorraine Hansberry discusses her play "A Raisin in the Sun" and theater in general; last 10 minutes is a reading of "Chicago: South Side Summers" from "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black." Lorraine Hansberry Women Men Way You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that. Her father was a real estate broker, and her mother a schoolteacher Her parents publicly fought discrimination against Black people. 6 likes. When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Lorraine Hansberry, 1950s. -- Lorraine Hansberry . 4 likes. Lorraine Hansberry was an African American female author and first dramatist. Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, and was the youngest of four children. For all her soaring intellect and trailblazing genius, Hansberry’s heart sank low with alarming regularity. Below I have covered most of the Lorraine Hansberry quotes which revealed her … —Nikki Giovanni, “An Emotional View of Lorraine Hansberry,” 1979. It was the second play written by a black woman to appear on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry was a distinguished American writer and author. Like “Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!” ― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry was … #Justice #Mind #Monsters