As a young, Black woman, Hansberry was a groundbreaking artist, recognized for her strong, passionate voice on gender, class, and racial issues. /Annots 581 0 R endobj /Contents 414 0 R [12][23], On June 20, 1953,[12] Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff, a Many prominent African American social and political leaders visited the Hansberry household during Lorraines childhood including sociology professor W.E.B. /Parent 1 0 R Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggles for liberation and their impact on the world. 29 0 obj >> endobj 37 0 obj endobj /Resources 382 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] When the police finally arrived, one officer remarked, "Some . /Contents 570 0 R << /Annots 299 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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. /Contents 216 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj /BitsPerComponent 8 /Contents 312 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R A studio recording by Simone was released as a single and the first live recording on October 26, 1969, was captured on Black Gold (1970). 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 /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 610 0 R As literary executor, he edited and published her three unfinished plays: Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers? /Type /Page /Annots 509 0 R /Type /Page /Contents 537 0 R >> /Type /Page [20] Hansberry traveled to Georgia to cover the case of Willie McGee, and was inspired to write the poem "Lynchsong" about his case. 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In 2013, more than twenty years after Nemiroff's death, the new executor released the restricted material to scholar Kevin J. endobj [8] Carl died in 1946 when Lorraine was fifteen years old; "American racism helped kill him," she later said.[9]. /Type /Page When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. PDF Guide to the Lorraine Hansberry Papers - New York Public Library 121 0 obj /Type /Page 118 0 obj /Type /Page /Resources 241 0 R /Contents 264 0 R >> 68 0 obj /Contents 573 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << A central aim of Colberts biography, as with Perrys book and Strains documentary, is to reclaim Hansberry as the radical she was. /Type /Page Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 265. /Type /Page [26][27][28], Hansberry was a closeted lesbian. /Type /Page << /Annots 248 0 R /Type /Page One of Lorraine Hanberry's brothers served in a segregated unit in World War II. The Interviews subseries, 1959-1963, n.d. (.2 lin. /Annots 572 0 R "Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'." /Parent 1 0 R >> [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. endobj /Contents 459 0 R endobj 14 0 obj /Type /Page endobj /Annots 461 0 R She had no patience for despair, for victims, really; her plays hinge on a decisive moment in which a character fends off complacency and takes a stand (quite often while making a thunderous speech about the necessity of taking a stand). 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B. /Contents 315 0 R endobj During the summer of 1949 she studied painting at the University of Guadalajara art workshop in Ajijic, Mexico and during the summer of 1950 she studied art at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. 155 0 obj >> >> /Resources 628 0 R She excelled in the humanities, but struggled with the required science courses. /Type /Page by. 129 0 obj She also began work for Paul Robeson's progressive Black newspaper Freedom, first as a writer and then an associate editor. She is best known for writing "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. >> /Pattern << >> >> << endobj /Annots 497 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre of San Francisco, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in her honor. 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[16], Hansberry often explained these global struggles in terms of female participants. /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 310 0 R /Height 500 Founded in 2004 and officially launched in 2006, The Hansberry Project of Seattle, Washington was created as an African-American theatre lab, led by African-American artists and was designed to provide the community with consistent access to the African-American artistic voice. /Resources 358 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 102 0 obj << /Parent 1 0 R During a protest against racial discrimination at New York University, she met Robert Nemiroff, a Jewish writer who shared her political views. 107 0 obj /Resources 586 0 R /Type /Page /Resources 589 0 R endobj endobj In 1960, during Delta Sigma Theta's 26th national convention in Chicago, Hansberry was made an honorary member. 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Lorraine Hansberry, child of a cultured, middle-class black family but early exposed to the poverty and discrimination suffered by most blacks in America, fought passionately against racism in her writings and throughout her life. endobj [73], On September 18, 2018, the biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, written by scholar Imani Perry, was published by Beacon Press. endobj In 1973, a musical based on A Raisin in the Sun, entitled Raisin, opened on Broadway, with music by Judd Woldin, lyrics by Robert Brittan, and a book by Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. /Resources 394 0 R endobj /Annots 551 0 R >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 294 0 R endobj 1 0 obj endobj To be young, gifted, and black. /Resources 397 0 R endobj Kicks. /Contents 327 0 R << This is her earliest remaining theatrical work. Lorraine graduated from Englewood High School in 1948 and attended the University of Wisconsin. 50 0 obj 85 0 obj /Resources 226 0 R /Annots 272 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 547 0 R 142 0 obj >> /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R NEW YORK - April 1959: Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry poses for a portrait in her apartment at 337 Bleecker Street (where she had written the first-ever Broadway play by an African . /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 325 0 R /Type /Page << %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz /Type /Page /Resources 415 0 R /Resources 220 0 R She ushered in a new era in theater history by becoming the first African-American writer and the youngest American playwright to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for her play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959). /Contents 489 0 R [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play p. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page 128 0 obj 23 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> In the public eye, she was the slim and pleasing housewife, the accidental playwright featured in a photo spread in Vogue. /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R [60], Hansberry's ex-husband, Robert Nemiroff, became the executor for several unfinished manuscripts. >> endobj /Parent 1 0 R endobj To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Lorraine Hansberry (1969) /Contents 444 0 R << /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page 116 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R << When she was 8 years old, Hansberry's family moved house and desegregated a white neighborhood that had a restrictive covenant. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [61] It appeared in book form the following year under the title To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words. 122 0 obj Commissioned by NBC in 1960 to create a television program about slavery, Hansberry wrote The Drinking Gourd. /Annots 284 0 R Lorraine Hansberry speech, "The Nation Needs Your Gifts", given to Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. 1935. Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. 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. [18] The following year, she collaborated with the already produced playwright Alice Childress, who also wrote for Freedom, on a pageant for its Negro History Festival, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Douglas Turner Ward, and John O. Killens. /Type /Page A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry 2004-11-29 "Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of . /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 368 0 R 88 0 obj /Contents 336 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. She also used members of her family as inspiration for her characters. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 320 0 R /Annots 482 0 R endobj endobj /Annots 536 0 R << >> /Annots 212 0 R /Contents 363 0 R endobj /Resources 211 0 R /Type /XObject /Type /Page /Annots 623 0 R /Resources 511 0 R /Annots 260 0 R /Parent 1 0 R [3][29] In 1957, around the time she separated from Nemiroff, Hansberry contacted the Daughters of Bilitis, the San Francisco-based lesbian rights organization, contributing two letters to their magazine, The Ladder, both of which were published under her initials, first "L.H.N. endobj Though A Raisin in the Sun i s the crown . 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. >> The success of the hit pop song "Cindy, Oh Cindy", co-authored by Nemiroff, enabled Hansberry to start writing full-time. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << We never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together, Nina Simone wrote of Hansberry in her memoir. /Contents 600 0 R << /Annots 578 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 512 0 R [24] Hansberry and Nemiroff moved to Greenwich Village, the setting of her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. /Annots 278 0 R Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, the youngest of four children born to Carl Augustus Hansberry, a prominent real estate broker, and his wife, Nannie Louise Hansberry, a schoolteacher and ward committeewoman. /Resources 250 0 R /Annots 239 0 R /Contents 408 0 R Books by Lorraine Hansberry (Author of A Raisin in the Sun) - Goodreads She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberrys four children. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 322 0 R Within two years, it was translated into 35 different languages and was performed all over the world. /Type /Page /Annots 539 0 R >> >> Included are diaries, journals and autobiographical notes, information regarding education and employment, subject files, correspondence, and interviews. /Resources 253 0 R /Type /Page << /Annots 446 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 593 0 R /Contents 462 0 R Lorraine Hansberry - Biography - IMDb A civil rights activist her entire life, Hansberry began identifying herself as a feminist and lesbian in the 1950s. 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A small interlude. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. /Resources 400 0 R /Resources 373 0 R /Annots 383 0 R A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun - Macmillan /Resources 508 0 R /Contents 225 0 R /Type /Page [69], In 2013, Hansberry was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. 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. Whites fought back. /Resources 553 0 R HANSBERRY, Lorraine (b. /Type /Page >> /Type /Page 30 0 obj /Annots 233 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun.pdf. /Contents 372 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was born at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. Open your heart to what I mean. [16], Additionally, she wrote scripts at Freedom. Her commitment to realism was absolute, a matter of moral principle. 144 0 obj Interest in anomie, absurdity or paralysis was dismissed as liberal silliness, and an abdication of artistic responsibility. /Annots 184 0 R << /Type /Page [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." /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 557 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] \ /Resources 622 0 R >> /Type /Page /Resources 580 0 R Du Bois , poet Langston Hughes, singer, actor, and political activist Paul Robeson, musician Duke Ellington, and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. >> /Resources 607 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 624 0 R /Type /Page /Resources 292 0 R >> /Resources 256 0 R /Contents 345 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 445 0 R /Contents 588 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << Look at the work that awaits you! she said in a speech to young writers, calling them young, gifted and Black inspiring the Nina Simone song of the same name. 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HANSBERRY, Lorraine. << /Resources 496 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 585 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] "[46] Simone wrote the song with the poet Weldon Irvine and told him that she wanted lyrics that would "make black children all over the world feel good about themselves forever." /Resources 418 0 R /Contents 510 0 R /Resources 334 0 R Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34. endobj She is bestknown forwriting "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. << endobj /Parent 1 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 . 112 0 obj /Resources 349 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 432 0 R >> /Parent 1 0 R [23], Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer[5][58] on January 12, 1965, aged 34. endobj ThoughtCo, Jan. 2, 2021, thoughtco.com/lorraine-hansberry-biography-3528287. endobj >> /Parent 1 0 R [63] The single reached the top 10 of the R&B charts. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. /Annots 542 0 R Lorraine Hansberry Biography - American Masters Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Tags: activist, /Annots 575 0 R >> /Annots 386 0 R /Contents 555 0 R /Annots 224 0 R Best Play Prize Won By a Negro Girl, 28, The New York Herald Tribune declared. >> /Type /Page A Reader's Guide to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun - Pamela Loos 2008-01-01 Presents a critique and analysis of "A Raisin in the Sun," discussing the plot, themes, dramatic devices, and major characters in the play, and includes a brief overview of Hansberry's other works. 19 May 1930;d. 12 January 1965), writer, activist. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] There are strong influences from her own family on the characters as well. /Resources 316 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 577 0 R << Carl Hansberry, with the help of Harry H. 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(2021, January 2). /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Contents 396 0 R To celebrate the newspaper's first birthday, Hansberry wrote the script for a rally at Rockland Palace, a then-famous Harlem hall,[17] on "the history of the Negro newspaper in America and its fighting role in the struggle for a people's freedom, from 1827 to the birth of FREEDOM." endobj 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 of what it meant to be a black woman. 84 0 obj >> Sign In. /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R She then began a play she called The Crystal Stair, from Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son. 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. >> << << /Annots 605 0 R "It was 1950, exactly mid-century, and Lorraine was in the mood to change direction. << /Annots 590 0 R The 15th was also Dr. King's birthday. /Parent 1 0 R >> >> The alarm sounds. She tries to rouse her sleeping child and husband, calling out: Get up!. /Parent 1 0 R >> A woman wakes, tries to rouse a sleeping child. [64] In the introduction of the live version, Simone explains the difficulty of losing a close friend and talented artist. /Annots 353 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 219 0 R It narrowly missed Hansberry, who was 7 years old. endobj << /Resources 448 0 R /Parent 1 0 R "In an article titled 'Kenya's Kikuyu: A Peaceful People Wage Heroic Struggle against the British,' Hansberry presented an opposite view and applauded the Kikuyu for 'helping to set fire to British Imperialism in Kenya.' Fast Facts: Lorraine Hansberry Performers in this pageant included Paul Robeson, his longtime accompanist Lawrence Brown, the multi-discipline artist Asadata Dafora, and numerous others. 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