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He is the father of Lorraine Hansberry.
He founded the Lake Street Bank, which was one of the first banks for Black people in Chicago. He was an American real estate agent and a political activist. He was born in the United Sates. -
Nannie Louise Perry is the mother to Lorraine Hansberry. She was born in Tennessee. She taught a school and served as a ward leader for the Republic Party, she aslo protected her family with a gun.
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Lorraine Hansberry parents married.
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He was one of Lorraine Hansberry oldest brother. He was named after his father. His information is very on the low side.
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Perry Holloway Hansberry is Lorraine Hansberry 2nd oldest brother.
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She is an accomplished artist who was born in Chicago, she is Lorraine Hansberry sister.
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She was born in Chicago Illinois, and she is the youngest of four. -
Hansberry’s parents challenged Chicago’s restrictive housing covenants by moving into an all-white neighborhood. Their new white neighbors did not welcome their move, and a mob gathered around the house. Someone threw a brick through the window, barely missing eight-year-old Hansberry’s head.
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She graduated from Betsy Ross Elementary in Chicago Illinois.
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He died in Mexico at the age of 50.
Lorraine Hansberry was 15 when her father passed, he passed from cerebral hemorrhage. -
Because of the ongoing struggle her father had faced against racial segregation, which she believed contributed to his early death; this experience significantly shaped her writing, especially her play "A Raisin in the Sun," where themes of racial injustice and the fight for equality are central to the narrative.
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Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1948 to 1950. She left before graduating to move to New York City and pursue writing. -
Lorraine graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago, where she first became interested in theater. -
When she enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While studying, Hansberry became interested in theater, politics, and the global anti-colonial movement. She worked on the 1948 presidential campaign for the Progressive Party, wrote in support of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, and covered the case of an African American man executed after an all-white jury deliberated his case for three minutes.
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By 1951, she was writing for Paul Robeson’s Freedom, a progressive publication that put her in touch with other literary and political mentors. She also studied with W.E.B. DuBois. Many of her mentors were attacked for being Communists, but Hansberry escaped this persecution because she was relatively unknown.
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Hansberry and Nemiroff met on a picket line protesting, the segregation of New York University basketball teams. He was an American theatrical producer and a songwriter. She never had children.
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Lorraine Hansberry and Robert Nemiroff’s got married. -
Lorraine Hansberry was an atheist, that was viewed as an expression in her play A Raisin in the Sun.
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Her first play was A Raisin in the Sun which was the first Drama by an African American women to be produced on Broadway. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes.
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“What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?” The play likewise tells a story of a “dream deferred:” It follows Walter Younger and his mother, Lena, who both yearn to move their family out of Chicago's South. Side neighborhood in search of better lives. When Lena's late husband's insurance check arrives, Lena hopes to use it to buy a house in a white neighborhood. Walter, on the other hand, would like to invest the money in a liquor business. -
They both got a divorce but she made him the executor of her literary estate. He remained her best friend and closest confidant for the rest of her life. She became attracted to women and had a growing desire to explore same gender relationships. -
The play concerns the nature of personal commitment to an ideal. It ran on Broadway for 101 performances -
She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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1928-1965
Chicago- Grew up there.
Madison- University.
Mexico- Studied painting.
New York City- Pursued writing.
Croton (city in New York)- Last years of her life. -
She was 34 years old and died in New York from pancreatic cancer. Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, and Nina Simone attended her funeral. -
Her mother passed away at the age of 69 in Los Angels California. Lorraine Hansberry was considered to old to experience her mother death. Lorraine Hansberry was 34.
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The play is about the life of American writer (Lorraine Hansberry) adapted from her own writings. Her ex husband adapted her story into a book. The book is a autobiography of her, and a some selections of her writings that was produced on Broadway in 1969. -
The play is about the experience of settlers, natives, and an American journalist in an unnamed African country in the waning days of colonial control. The theme of the play is coloniality, Black nationalism, and imperialism in a fictional African country that stands in for Black freedom struggles across the diaspora. It was her last play -
The play condemns slavery and explores the effects of racism and colonialism on Black people. The Drinking Gourd risks his life for freedom from the harmful people that are slave owners. Also is about how a poem is supposed to be a secret way to escape. It never aired and didn't print until the year of 1972. -
An elderly man, having rejected society to live as a hermit in a forest for decades, emerges to find that he is the only adult alive. It was included in the collection Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays of Lorraine Hansberry. -
He passed away at the age of 76.
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Perry Holloway Hansberry passed in that year at the age of 81
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Mamie Louise Hansberry is still here, and last year she turned 100 years old.