Lorraine Hansberry
Profile info
Known forWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday19 May 1930
Died12 January 1965 (age 34)
Place of birthChicago, Illinois, USA
Known credits9
Biography
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…
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
2019 · Writer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017 · Self (archive footage)
A Raisin in the Sun
2008 · Theatre Play
American Playhouse
1982 · Theatre Play
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978 · Self (Archive Footage)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972 · Writer
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
1969 · Writer
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Screenplay
A Raisin in the Sun
1961 · Theatre Play
The David Susskind Show
1959 · Self
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