An opportunity to escape from poverty comes in the form of a $10,000 life insurance check that the matriarch of the family (Lena Younger or Mama) receives upon her husband's death. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj /Type /Page << /Type /Page /Type /Page /Resources 403 0 R /Contents 555 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] "Queering the borders: Lorraine Hansberry's 1957 Letters to The Ladder". /Resources 161 0 R When she was 8 years old, Hansberrys family deliberately attempted to move into a restricted neighborhood. /Resources 460 0 R << Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), pp. endobj /Annots 278 0 R << These years taught Hansberry the necessity of fighting on all fronts. She was particularly interested in the situation of Egypt,[5] "the traditional Islamic 'cradle of civilization,' where women had led one of the most important fights anywhere for the equality of their sex. /Parent 1 0 R << Lorraine Hansberry was a U.S. writer in the mid-1900s. /Type /Page Fact 2: Lorraine was raised in the South Side of Chicago. She enrolled in the University of Wisconsin but left before completing her degree. 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. /Contents 528 0 R https://www.thoughtco.com/lorraine-hansberry-biography-3528287 (accessed March 4, 2023). /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, and was the youngest of four children. Theres an odd narrowness to her vision. In 2017, Hansberry was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] She wrote under an alias, using her initials L.H., for fear of discrimination. /Resources 448 0 R Her father filed a lawsuit, and Hansberry recalled her desperate and courageous mother, home without him, patrolling our house all night with a loaded German Luger, doggedly guarding her four children., Colberts study is loving, lavishly detailed, repetitive and a little stilted in the telling. /Resources 400 0 R Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, about a Jewish intellectual, ran on Broadway for 101 performances. 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Born Lorraine Vivian Hansberry May 19,1930 Place: Chicago, Illinois Parents: Carl Augustus and Nannie Louise Hansberry (Carl was a real estate broker, Nannie was a school teacher) The youngest of four children by seven years Uploaded on Jul 30, 2014 Elroy Chevallier + Follow lloyd richards black director window social research /Parent 1 0 R << /Annots 233 0 R After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder . << endobj /Resources 628 0 R >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [72], In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain. endobj 82 0 obj /Resources 541 0 R [35] In 2013, Nemiroff's daughter released the restricted materials to Kevin J. Mumford, who explored Hansberry's self-identification in subsequent work. Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. In 2018, a new American Masters documentary,"Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," was released, by filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain. /Type /Page Hansberry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1963 and she died two years later on January 12, 1965, at age 34. Soyica Diggs Colbert, the author of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry.. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? << A Raisin in the Sun Summary. endobj /Resources 607 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R The case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court as Hansberry v. Lee, when their case was overturned, but on a technicality. /Annots 236 0 R In 1961, Hansberry was set to replace Vinnette Carroll as the director of the musical Kicks and Co, after its try-out at Chicago's McCormick Place. endobj >> [8] Carl died in 1946 when Lorraine was fifteen years old; "American racism helped kill him," she later said.[9]. /Contents 408 0 R "[49] In response to the independence of Ghana, led by Kwame Nkrumah, Hansberry wrote: "The promise of the future of Ghana is that of all the colored peoples of the world; it is the promise of freedom. /Contents 312 0 R Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. 97 0 obj /Annots 617 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 326 0 R endobj The latter was the first play written by an African-American woman to be staged on Broadway. /Contents 429 0 R 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.'". 150 0 obj Born in 1930, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was the youngest of Carl and Nannie Hansberry's four children. /Resources 445 0 R >> /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page 111 0 obj << /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 517 0 R /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R endobj /Resources 265 0 R >> Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. [3][4][5] Before her marriage, she had written in her personal notebooks about her attraction to women. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> endobj /Resources 535 0 R /Resources 619 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 623 0 R /Contents 639 0 R Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 42. /Resources 622 0 R [8] She spent the summer of 1949 in Mexico, studying painting at the University of Guadalajara. 149 0 obj Hansberry begins school at Betsy Ross Elementary at 61st Street and Wabash . Carl Hansberry was also a supporter of the Urban League and NAACP in Chicago. >> 100 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 230 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 214 0 R >> Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 43. /Contents 537 0 R << After studying painting in Chicago and Mexico, Hansberry moved to New York in 1950 to begin her career as a writer. Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun Author: Charles J. Shields Read Excerpt About This Book The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized, read, and performed play of the American stage, by the New York Times bestselling. endobj /Contents 405 0 R /Annots 332 0 R 146 0 obj >> Although critical reception was cool, supporters kept it running until Lorraine Hansberry's death in January. 10 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 102 0 obj /Annots 452 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, into a middle-class family on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz >> /Resources 436 0 R /Type /Page /Contents 552 0 R /Font << When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. /Contents 363 0 R Watch the 2022 One Book, One Chicago keynote, Are you enjoying this season's One Book, One, Has this season of One Book, One Chicago and the, A Raisin in the Sun: One Book, One Chicago Spring 2003, Historical Context of A Raisin in the Sun, Background and Criticism of A Raisin in the Sun, Express Yourself: Creativity-Sparking Books, Wilkerson, Margaret B. /Contents 465 0 R 120 0 obj At the same time, she said, "some of the first people who have died so far in this struggle have been white men. I feel I am learning how to think all over again, she wrote anonymously to a lesbian magazine. 4 0 obj /Type /Page /Contents 342 0 R endobj /Contents 495 0 R 268269. /Annots 260 0 R >> /Type /Page 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. 127 0 obj endobj << endobj /Resources 247 0 R She held out some hope for male allies of women, writing in an unpublished essay: "If by some miracle women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved. /Contents 498 0 R /Resources 481 0 R Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), p. 194: "It was common for the Hansberry household to host a range of African-American luminaries such as Paul Robeson, W. E. B. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << >> /Annots 431 0 R /Annots 461 0 R Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930-January 12, 1965) was a playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist. Hansberry's writings also discussed her lesbianism and the oppression of homosexuality. To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words is a 1969 collection of autobiographical writings by the playwright and author best known for A Raisin in the Sun. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. << << /Resources 514 0 R A central aim of Colberts biography, as with Perrys book and Strains documentary, is to reclaim Hansberry as the radical she was. Moving with her husband to Croton-on-Hudson, Lorraine Hansberry continued not only her writing but also her involvement with civil rights and other political protests. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. 89 0 obj endobj /Length 55074 /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page 1930-36. /Parent 1 0 R 65 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 560 0 R She wrote for Paul Robesons Freedom, a progressive publication, which put her in contact with other literary and political mentors such as W.E.B. endobj [39] James Baldwin believed "it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man. rumination on Hansberry's death, Ossie Davis (who succeeded Sidney Poitier in the role of Walter Lee) put it this way: The play deserved all thisthe playwright deserved all this, and more. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 373 0 R She died on January 12, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. /Contents 573 0 R /Annots 344 0 R Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status,. endobj /Contents 303 0 R /Annots 299 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R Another dim, drab room. endobj /Contents 648 0 R ThoughtCo. /Type /Page Beneatha is me, eight years ago, she explained. 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She later retitled it A Raisin in the Sun from Hughes poem, Harlem: A Dream Deferred., In A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, she drew upon the lives of the working-class black people who rented from her father and who went to school with her on Chicagos South Side. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 71 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 602 0 R /Annots 190 0 R /Resources 349 0 R In 1956, her husband and Burt DLugoff wrote the hit song, Cindy, Oh Cindy. 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[43] In her award-winning Hansberry biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, Imani Perry writes that in his "gorgeous" images, "Attie captured her intellectual confidence, armour, and remarkable beauty. << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 486 0 R She underwent two operations, on June 24 and August 2. /Contents 306 0 R endobj >> 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. /Annots 455 0 R << << /Type /Page /Annots 401 0 R The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry The Rev. endobj endobj >> /Annots 509 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page << /Resources 466 0 R /Resources 298 0 R /Resources 556 0 R /Type /Catalog >> >> Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent, she wrote. 55 0 obj /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 63 0 obj 11 0 obj /Annots 425 0 R 154 0 obj /Annots 651 0 R /Contents 225 0 R The granddaughter of a formerly enslaved person, Lorraine Hansberry was born into a family that was active in the Black community of Chicago. 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[16], Additionally, she wrote scripts at Freedom. /Parent 1 0 R [40] Also in 1963, Hansberry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. endobj 99 0 obj 74 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 653 0 R /Contents 336 0 R /Contents 243 0 R [39], When Nemiroff donated Hansberry's personal and professional effects to the New York Public Library, he "separated out the lesbian-themed correspondence, diaries, unpublished manuscripts, and full runs of the homophile magazines and restricted them from access to researchers." She grew up on the south side of Chicago, a place rigidly segregated by race. >> [21], Hansberry worked on not only the US civil rights movement, but also global struggles against colonialism and imperialism. Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 47. /Length 109 /Annots 311 0 R In an interview, Hansberry laughingly said Beneatha is me, eight years ago.. 116 0 obj /Author (Lorraine Hansberry) Biography. At Freedom, she worked with W. E. 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(.2 lin. /Contents 354 0 R /Type /Page /Contents 351 0 R Despite their middle-class status, the Hansberrys were subject to segregation. << When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. /Resources 595 0 R /Type /Page 142 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - 1965) was an American playwright and author best known for A Raisin in the Sun, a 1959 play influenced by her background and upbringing in Chicago. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 384 0 R /Type /Page /Contents 477 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] What would this thinking have wrought? >> Information about her extended illness and get-well cards are also filed here. /Contents 504 0 R /Type /Page endobj /Contents 414 0 R endobj /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page In 2008, the production was adapted for television with the same cast, winning two NAACP Image Awards. Her uncle William Leo Hansberry was a professor of African history. We never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together, Nina Simone wrote of Hansberry in her memoir. /Parent 1 0 R /Height 500 /Contents 393 0 R >> 106 0 obj She wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. endobj /Resources 508 0 R /Contents 549 0 R /Contents 237 0 R << /Annots 497 0 R To those around them, the Hansberrys were inspirational both parents were college . /Contents 558 0 R << /Width 298 /Contents 432 0 R /Annots 539 0 R >> /Contents 630 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 125 0 obj endobj >> [ /Pattern /DeviceRGB ] Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Soyica Diggs Colbert. (My homosexuality made both at age 29.) 162 0 obj /Type /Page /Annots 184 0 R << /Contents 309 0 R /Contents 399 0 R << >> /Type /Page
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Lewis, Jone Johnson. >> >> /Parent 1 0 R 88 0 obj /Resources 244 0 R /Annots 257 0 R Its not incidental, I think, that these asides often have to do with desire. << << /Type /Page endobj /Contents 510 0 R /Type /Page << /Annots 500 0 R /Type /Page w !1AQaq"2B #3Rbr endobj /Type /Page /CSpg /DeviceGray To this Soyica Diggs Colbert, a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University, adds her contribution with Radical Vision, positioned as the first scholarly biography. In 1938, her father bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago, incurring the wrath of some of their white neighbors. We get rid of all the little bombsand the big bombs," though she also believed in the right of people to defend themselves with force against their oppressors. 128 0 obj 22 0 obj endobj /Type /Page 133 0 obj endobj >> /Annots 386 0 R >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] When she was 8 years old, Hansberry's family moved house and desegregated a white neighborhood that had a restrictive covenant. 52 0 obj 75 0 obj 157 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R 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. 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[40], Hansberry agreed to speak to the winners of a creative writing conference on May 1, 1964: "Though it is a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic to be young, gifted and black."[46].