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Lorrain Hansberry
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- Lorraines Hansberry was an American writer who made history as the first African-American woman to write a Broadway play. A Raisin in the Sun, her best-known drama, follows an African-American family on Chicago's south side as they decide to pursue their goals.
- curse you! you're hated here. im sure some brick will help!
- Her father was a real estate broker who purposefully bought a property in an all-white area with his money. Mobs threatened the residence, and a brick was hurled through one of the windows.
- They took the case to court because of a "restrictive covenant provision," which stipulated that white property owners would not sell to African Americans. When the Illinois Supreme Court ruled that the covenants were legitimate, they were compelled to leave.
- but the ruling was overturned on a technicality by the U.S. Supreme Court and found to be a contestable issue, although not necessarily illegal. The case led to the end of these kinds of agreements in Chicago, and opened up land ownership in new areas to African Americans.
- In 1959, Hansberry published her most well-known novel, A Raisin in the Sun. It immediately became one of the most iconic plays of its period, nominated for multiple prizes, and was loosely based on people she knew from Chicago's poorest black families and her family's personal experience with the white area.
- Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34 in 1965, leaving several incomplete or unpublished works. Robert Nemiroff, her ex-husband, completed some of the pieces and collated others, allowing more of her work to be published after her death.
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