Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and litigant in the United States Supreme Court case, "Hansberry v. Lee". Born in Chicago, Illinois, Hansberry was the youngest of four children of Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Perry Hansberry. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood. When she was eight, the family moved into an all white neighborhood, … Wikipedia
Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35. www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/Chap8/hansberry.html
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Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry 's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Br web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/hansberry.html
"I was born black and female," Lorraine Hansberry said. These twin identities would dominate her life and her work. 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 voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hansberry_larraine.html
