/Contents 181 0 R In the process of exploring the ideas that shaped Lorraine Hansberry's understanding of her art and the world, the volume confirms the writer's relevance during these troubled but potentially transformative times. /Contents 357 0 R >> /Annots 491 0 R Refresh the page, check Medium 's site status,. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> 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 258 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 471 0 R /Contents 348 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 567 0 R /Filter /DCTDecode /Type /Page /BitsPerComponent 8 /Contents 609 0 R endobj << Oh, what a lovely, precious dream. /Resources 182 0 R >> >> /Annots 305 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 78 0 obj "Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'." << /Resources 610 0 R >> "It was 1950, exactly mid-century, and Lorraine was in the mood to change direction. 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At the triumphant premiere of Raisin, at the standing ovation and the calls for playwright to take the stage, she initially refused to leave her seat. /Parent 1 0 R She also used members of her family as inspiration for her characters. endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R 5 0 obj 141 0 obj endobj /Type /Page /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB >> /Annots 539 0 R endobj You can find out more about our use, change your default settings, and withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future by visiting Cookies Settings, which can also be found in the footer of the site. endobj endobj When she was 8 years old, Hansberry's family moved house and desegregated a white neighborhood that had a restrictive covenant. /Resources 496 0 R Lorraine Hansberry Biography, Works, and Quotes | SparkNotes /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /Contents 603 0 R Theres an odd narrowness to her vision. endobj endobj Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, had so much of the truth of Black peoples lives been seen on the stage, her friend James Baldwin would later recall. endobj endobj /Resources 334 0 R [55] However, Hansberry admired Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. << On the eightieth anniversary of Hansberry's birth, Adjoa Andoh presented a BBC Radio 4 program entitled Young, Gifted and Black in tribute to her life.[68]. /ColorSpace << /Resources 514 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 197 0 R /Resources 283 0 R 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. At this time, she and her husband separated, but they continued to work together. /Contents 345 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R >> 20 0 obj /Type /Page /Annots 497 0 R 37 0 obj Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry - amazon.com /Annots 383 0 R /Resources 565 0 R PERRY: She was willing to risk her fame and her recognition for. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 647 0 R [63] The single reached the top 10 of the R&B charts. /Type /Page /Annots 257 0 R /Type /Page << archives.nypl.org -- Lorraine Hansberry papers - New York Public Library /Parent 1 0 R She applauded the growing West Coast homophile movement and was one of the first members of the New York chapter of the groundbreaking lesbian organization, the Daughters of Bilitis. /Type /Page /Type /Page >> 9 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R >> Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. /Annots 455 0 R /Annots 596 0 R Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 46. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 466 0 R The show ran for more than two years and won two Tony Awards, including Best Musical. << /Resources 625 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /CSp /DeviceRGB 1935. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 102 0 obj /Annots 404 0 R /Annots 272 0 R In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on BroadwayA Raisin in the Sun. << Contains materials created primarily by Hansberry from 1950 until her death in 1964. 156 0 obj She is bestknown forwriting "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. /Contents 531 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page endobj Visitors to her childhood home included such Black luminaries as Duke Ellington, W.E.B. Book Review: A Valuable Reminder of Lorraine Hansberry's "Radical A Raisin in the Sun Summary - GradeSaver endobj >> Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 43. endobj "No sooner had she joined Freedom, which had been founded by Paul Robeson as part of his tightening embrace of the Communist Party line in the increasingly frigid Cold War than she was serving as a participant-correspondent: she accompanied the 'Sojourners for Truth and Justice,' a group of 132 black women from 15 states which was convened in September 1951, in Washington by the long-time activist Mary Church Terrell 'to demand that the Federal Government protect the lives and liberties' of black Americans. The alarm sounds. /Resources 571 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [12] Although the couple separated in 1957 and divorced in 1962, their professional relationship lasted until Hansberry's death. /Annots 338 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest of four children born to Carl A. Hansberry and Nanny Perry Hansberry on Chicago's South Side. stream /Count 156 /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 104 0 obj To quote Simone de Beauvoir, an important influence, Hansberry could not think in terms of joy or despair but in terms of freedom. And she could not think of freedom as a destination but as a practice, full of intervals, regressions. << /Resources 259 0 R Content distributed via the University of Minnesota's Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. /Type /Page /Contents 513 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 545 0 R 139 0 obj 132 0 obj << >> >> 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.'". /Resources 277 0 R >> Lorraine Hansberry's Radicalism | The Nation endobj 27 Black American Women Writers You Should Know, Biography of Louis Armstrong, Expert Trumpeter and Entertainer, Black History and Women's Timeline: 19501959, Ten Major Civil Rights Speeches and Writings, Biography of Helen Keller, Deaf and Blind Spokesperson and Activist, "A Raisin in the Sun" Plot Summary and Study Guide, Biography of Thurgood Marshall, First Black Supreme Court Justice, "A Raisin in the Sun" Act Two, Scene One Summary and Study Guide, Biography of Tennessee Williams, American Playwright, Biography of Arthur Miller, Major American Playwright, 'A Raisin in the Sun' Act III Plot Summary and Study Guide, StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee, Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of A Raisin in the Sun, M.Div., Meadville/Lombard Theological School. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 478 0 R endobj Perry's multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. endobj 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. /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << << /Annots 587 0 R 105 0 obj Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry - amazon.com /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R The Quiet Lesbian Biography of Lorraine Hansberry - Autostraddle Lorraine Hansberry, Activist and Playwright | Biography Page Count 384 Genre Bios & Memoirs On Sale >> 98 0 obj /Annots 190 0 R /Type /Page 136 0 obj >> /Annots 212 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 614 0 R endobj << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /XObject /Annots 362 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 562 0 R To read these notes, their shame and their thrill (At 32, under I like: the inside of a lovely womans mouth) recalls some of the pleasures of the private writing of Virginia Woolf and the fragmented diaries of Susan Sontag two other writers capable of caginess about their attraction to women. /Contents 585 0 R The Hansberry family lives at 5330 S. Calumet Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 622 0 R /Annots 569 0 R /Annots 527 0 R endobj /Contents 420 0 R endobj /Parent 1 0 R New Biography More Fully Defines Playwright Lorraine Hansberry /Type /Page /Resources 598 0 R /Resources 634 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page 110 0 obj /Type /Page Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, into a middle-class family on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. >> At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. 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 390 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page 147 0 obj /Type /Page /Contents 576 0 R << Lorraine Hansberry | Encyclopedia.com Her cousin is the flutist, percussionist, and composer Aldridge Hansberry. Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'. /Contents 468 0 R She was a writer, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), American Playhouse (1980) and National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2020). >> /Parent 1 0 R Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart is the first-ever feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry, the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun.An overnight sensation, the play transformed the American theater and has long been considered a classic, yet the remarkable story of the playwright faded from view. << /Type /Page /Resources 189 0 R >> /Resources 167 0 R 116 0 obj >> /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 25 0 obj << uG7)?+>:#OX(w\ f/eksn14#}*t. << /Annots 410 0 R << Included are diaries, journals and autobiographical notes, information regarding education and employment, subject files, correspondence, and interviews. /Contents 228 0 R /Resources 556 0 R 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. 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 . 130 0 obj /Contents 327 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] To be young, gifted, and black. << /Type /Page /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. [2] Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 US Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. >> 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. /Parent 1 0 R [8] Carl died in 1946 when Lorraine was fifteen years old; "American racism helped kill him," she later said.[9]. endobj She attended the Intercontinental Peace Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1952, when Paul Robeson was denied a passport to attend. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Les Blancs - Wikipedia << [12][23], On June 20, 1953,[12] Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff, a << PDF Guide to the Lorraine Hansberry Papers - New York Public Library /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 38 0 obj /Resources 412 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << Biography continued 2 "I was born black and female," Lorraine Hansberry said. Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry - Mollie Godfrey 2021-01-15 >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 615 0 R >> << /Type /Page 36 0 obj In 2014, the play was revived on Broadway again in a production starring Denzel Washington, directed again by Kenny Leon; it won three Tony Awards, for Best Revival of a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play for Sophie Okonedo, and Best Direction of a Play. /Annots 275 0 R /Annots 449 0 R >> >> endobj [19], Like Robeson and many black civil rights activists, Hansberry understood the struggle against white supremacy to be interlinked with the program of the Communist Party. [33][34] According to Kevin J. Mumford, however, beyond reading homophile magazines and corresponding with their creators, "no evidence has surfaced" to support claims that Hansberry was directly involved in the movement for gay and lesbian civil equality. Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), pp. /Parent 1 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 1963. >> /Annots 651 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj endobj /Parent 1 0 R 68 0 obj >> /Resources 298 0 R /Parent 1 0 R >> endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 60 0 obj << /Annots 632 0 R [35][36], Mumford stated that Hansberry's lesbianism caused her to feel isolated while A Raisin in the Sun catapulted her to fame; still, while "her impulse to cover evidence of her lesbian desires sprang from other anxieties of respectability and conventions of marriage, Hansberry was well on her way to coming out. In 1959 her play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway, an important theater district in New York City. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 359 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 19 0 obj /Type /Page /Resources 559 0 R /Annots 311 0 R The production won Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for Rashad and Best Featured Actress in a Play for McDonald, and received a nomination for Best Revival of a Play. /Resources 653 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R The Youngers are a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago. /Contents 636 0 R Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry Hardcover - April 20, 2021 by Soyica Diggs Colbert (Author) 49 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $12.82 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover $13.49 24 Used from $2.91 11 New from $12.31 Paperback $18.00 2 Used from $24.36 17 New from $12.94 Audio CD endobj >> Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, about a Jewish intellectual, ran on Broadway for 101 performances. endobj /Annots 344 0 R /Annots 488 0 R She is buried at Asbury United Methodist Church Cemetery in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. /Length 55074 /Type /Page Despite their middle-class status, the Hansberrys were subject to segregation. >> 157 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Height 500 /Annots 608 0 R endobj /Annots 260 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 493 0 R /Type /Page << /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 516 0 R /Contents 462 0 R 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. Lorraine Hansberry Biography - eNotes.com 70 0 obj Carter, Stephen R. "Commitment amid Complexity: Lorraine Hansberry's Life in Action". /Resources 319 0 R 34K views 4 years ago Discover the life of Lorraine Hansberry, who reported on civil rights for Paul Robeson's newspaper Freedom and later penned "A Raisin in the Sun". A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay. [39] It ran for 101 performances on Broadway[48] and closed the night she died. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [69], In 2013, Hansberry was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 220 0 R 196197. She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry's four children. Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and nonviolent, she wrote. /Resources 577 0 R /Contents 432 0 R 13 0 obj [61] It appeared in book form the following year under the title To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words. >> >> Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright and Activist - ThoughtCo << [14], In 1951, Hansberry joined the staff of the black newspaper Freedom, edited by Louis E. Burnham and published by Paul Robeson. >> Look at the work that awaited her. 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. Clear rating. /Contents 558 0 R 142 0 obj [54] Along these lines, she wrote a critical review of Richard Wright's The Outsider and went on to style her final play Les Blancs as a foil to Jean Genet's absurdist Les Ngres. /Contents 648 0 R "[57], Hansberry was appalled by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place while she was in high school. /Resources 304 0 R Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), pp. endobj (My homosexuality made both at age 29.) biography of the author. /Contents 519 0 R 155 0 obj When the police finally arrived, one officer remarked, "Some . >> /Type /Page 99 0 obj /Type /Page 40 0 obj [5] Hansberry inspired the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", whose title-line came from Hansberry's autobiographical play. >> /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 280 0 R /Annots 395 0 R << endobj The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry The Rev. /Annots 425 0 R [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. 122 0 obj /Annots 542 0 R The book circles a few points very dutifully even as we feel Colbert itching to rove. endobj In 1964, "The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality" was published for SNCC (StudentNonviolent Coordinating Committee) with text by Hansberry. /Resources 508 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R She moved to Harlem in 1951[12] and became involved in activist struggles such as the fight against evictions. Dubois, Paul Robeson, and Jesse Owens. /Type /Page Many prominent African American social and political leaders visited the Hansberry household during Lorraines childhood including sociology professor W.E.B. /Type /Page She was the first Black playwright and youngest American to win a New York Critics Circle award. Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 267. /Parent 1 0 R endobj 106 0 obj /Type /Page 1930-36. /Contents 291 0 R 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. endobj /Resources 385 0 R After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she worked with other intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 523 0 R [39] Upon his ex-wife's death, Robert Nemiroff donated all of Hansberry's personal and professional effects to the New York Public Library. /Type /Page << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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.
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