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	Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago as the daughter of a prominent real-estate broker, Carl Hansberry, and the niece of William Leo Hansberry (1894-1965), a Howard University professor of African history in D.C. William Leo Hansberry taught at Howard University ultil 1959 after rejecting employment offers from Atlanta University and the Honorable Marcus Garvey.
		When Lorraine was eight, her parents bought a house in a white neighborhood, where they were welcomed one night by a racist mob.
		In an unfinished, partly autobiographical novel Hansberry wrote: "In her emotions she was sprung from the Southern Zulu and the Central Pygmy, the Eastern Watusi and the treacherous slave-trading Western Ashanti themselves.
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	Lorraine Hansberry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago to parents who were prominent in fl cultural and political circles.
		Hansberry is best known for her play, A Raisin in the Sun, which was made into a motion picture shortly after she wrote it in 1959.
		Yet, within her brief lifetime, Hansberry did much by way of protesting the circumstances of Blacks in the United States, and helping to push Black art into the minds of Americans of every race, and is therefore respected as an important member of the Black arts.
	www.umich.edu /~eng499/people/lorraine.html (303 words)

	Lorraine Hansberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest child of Carl Augustus Hansberry (a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Perry Hansberry.[Cheney,A. Lorraine Hansberry, Boston.Twayne] Her parents were Republicans who bequeathed their Afrocentric ideology to their daughter (prior to the 1932 presidential election, a majority of African-Americans voted Republican).
		Hansberry grew up in a white, middle-class neighborhood and attended a segregated public school while her parents fought against segregation.
		In San Francisco, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in honor of her great contributions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry (590 words)

	Lorraine Hansberry
		Hansberry grew up in a middle-class family in the Windy City at a time when neighborhoods were still racially segregated.
		Lorraine narrowly escaped being hit by a brick thrown through her bedroom window.
		Hansberry later said, "It was the conventional wisdom that nobody was going to pay...to see a bunch of negroes emoting." They were unable to rent a theater in New York, so they took the show on the road.
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	Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy.
		Hansberry had begun to claim her identity as a lesbian in a 1957 letter to a lesbian periodical, The Ladder.
		Hansberry's purpose was to show "the many gradations in even one Negro family." The characters suffer, hope, dream, and triumph over the enormous barriers erected by the dominant culture...
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	Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago to a middle-class African-American family.
		Lorraine chronicled urban life for African-Americans in her masterpiece, "A Raisin In The Sun." It tells the story of the workings of an urban fl family in the 1950s; of its loves, hopes and dreams.
		When Lorraine Hansberry was 29 years old, she became the first fl playwright, male or female, to win the coveted New York Drama Critic's Circle Award.
	www.absolutewrite.com /novels/lorraine_hansberry.htm (452 words)

	Vignette: Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry was one of the most significant and influential playwrights of the 20th Century.
		Hansberry’s account of the struggles of an urban fl family was an overnight success, running some 530 performances, and winning a New York Drama Critics Circle Award and four Tony’s for Best Play, Director, Actress and Actor.
		Hansberry was a native of Chicago who received her early education at the University of Wisconsin, Roosevelt University, and the New School for Social Research.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/hansberry_lorraine.htm (296 words)

	AFRO-AMERICAN ALMANAC - African-American History Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Lorraine Hansberry was born, May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Carl Augustus Hansberry and Nannie Perry.
		Lorraine graduated from Englewood High School in Chicago in 1948 and for two years attended the University of Wisconsin, where her interests in art and writing were complemented by courses in dramatic literature and stage design.
		Hansberry grew dissatisfied with college, and after a summer of art studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago, she moved to New York City in August 1950.
	www.toptags.com /aama/bio/women/lhansberry.htm (850 words)

	Women of Color Women of Word -- African American Female Playwrights - Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born May 19, 1930 in Chicago and raised in a middle-class family.
		The Hansberrys had to go to court in order to remain in their home which was vandalized on several occasions.
		Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin, studied at Roosevelt University, attended the New School for Social Research, and studied African Culture and History with W.E.B. DuBois at the Jefferson School for Social Sciences in New York.
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~cybers/hansberry2.html (540 words)

	Annotated Bibliography on Lorraine Hansberry
		Hansberry portrays her fl feminine characters as positive, committed to family, and united in order to provide other fl women with self-respect and hope during their times of difficulties.
		Hansberry, on the contrary, portrays her feminine characters as strong characters who help her tell the world that fl people “have among (their) miserable and downtrodden ranks people who are the very essence of human dignity” (773).
		Hansberry, in A Raisin in the Sun, hid the grimness of the world for fl people with the laughter and optimism provided by her characters.
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	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Lorraine Hansberry"
		Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest child of Carl Augustus Hansberry(a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Perry Hansberry.[Cheney,A. Lorraine Hansberry, Boston.Twayne] Her parents were Republicans who bequeathed their Afrocentric ideology to their daughter (prior to the 1932 presidential election, a majority of African-Americans voted Republican).
		Hansberry grew up in a white, middle-class neighborhood and attended a segregated public school while her parents fought against segregation.
		In San Francisco, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in honor of her great contributions.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=lorraine_%48ansberry (608 words)

	NPR : 'A Raisin in the Sun', Present at the Creation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Hansberry's father made his money as a real-estate broker in a segregated Chicago where restrictive covenants meant that fl tenants or homeowners were barred from white areas.
		Hansberry may not have expected quite so much adulation, but she was aware of the play's significance, especially to Broadway's overwhelmingly white audiences.
		Hansberry died of cancer in 1965, at the age of 34.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/raisin (773 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine often felt the desire to be more like the friends she went to school with.
		When Lorraine was eight years old, the family had just moved into a predominantly white neighborhood, and her father was in the midst of the landmark Supreme Court case Hansberry v Lee involving housing discrimination.
		Hansberry worked to support her husband through his graduate studies in literature at New York University by doing several odd jobs, including a two-week camp for adults to promote racial unity.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_lorraine_hansberry.html (736 words)

	Lorraine Hansberry Summary
		Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (1930-1965) was an important American writer and a major figure on Broadway.
		Lorraine Hansberry gained prominence as the first fl among the handful of American women playwrights to have a Broadway success, A Raisin in the Sun (1959).
		Lorraine Hansberry is an African American writer who achieved a number of important firsts during her short life; she was the first fl woman to write a play that was produced on Broadway as well as the first fl and youngest woman to win the New Yor...
	www.bookrags.com /Lorraine_Hansberry (595 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Lorraine Hansberry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		While Hansberry often prefaced her work with the comment "I was born fl and female," she never publicized her lesbian identity.
		Hansberry's homosexuality was affirmed in a 1957 letter to the lesbian periodical “The Ladder.” Still, when she died in 1965, this facet of her life and her divorce from Nemiroff were not widely known, as such admissions would have had serious repercussions for Hansberry's reputation.
		Hansberry's brave, bold, visionary work presaged the flood of civil rights activism that would define the late 1960s as the age of liberation for ethnic minorities, women, and gays.
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	The Critical Reception of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
		Hansberry's solution to the apparent paradox--that particularity and universality are not static, contradictory opposites--suggested that the fishbowl's glass does not exist (or at least that the glass is an unstable illusion), that fls are not intrinsically collectable, nor are whites necessarily immune from being collected.
		The misquote appeared to resolve the paradox (by using Hansberry's authority as the writer and as a "Negro" to "prove" the universalist interpretation and "discredit" the particularist position), but in fact it merely maintained it by erasing the possibility of a fluid relationship between the universal and the particular.
		Lorraine Hansberry, quoted in Nan Robertson, "Dramatist Against Odds," New York Times, 8 March 1959 (In file, "A Raisin in the Sun," New York Public Library, Schomburg Collection); quoted in Doris E. Abramson, Negro Playwrights in the American Theatre, 1925-1959, New York: Columbia University Press, 1967, 240.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~rbernst/hansberry.html (4490 words)

	Lorraine Hansberry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Lorraine was co-editor of our magazine,New Challenge, while she worked on Paul Robeson’s paper, Freedom; Doug was chair of the Harlem LYL, and I, several years older than the others, was National Chairperson.
		These were the circumstances in which 20 year-old Lorraine went to work with Lou Burnham on Robeson’s paper, appeared for Robeson at an international conference when his passport was lifted, lost her own passport in reprisal, and assisted W.E.B. Du Bois when the US Attorney moved against him.
		Lorraine Hansberry captured that spirit in her life and in the creative beauty of her prose.
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	Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago as the daughter of a prominet real-estate broker and the niece of a Harvard University professor of African history.
		Her parents were intellectuals and activists, and her father won an antisegregation case before the Illinois Supreme Court, upon which the events in A Raisin in the Sun was loosely based.
		Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hansberry,
		Hansberry, Lorraine HANSBERRY, LORRAINE [Hansberry, Lorraine] 1930-65, American playwright, b.
		In 1959 she became the first fl woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun opened to wide critical acclaim.
		Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun.' (Lorraine Hansberry)
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	African American Registry: Lorraine Hansberry, writer of American classics. . .
		Lorraine Hansberry* was born on this date in 1930.
		Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was from Chicago Illinois and attended the University of Wisconsin but left in 1950 and moved to New York City.
		After Hansberry's death, her husband, songwriter and music publisher Robert Nemiroff, adapted her letters, plays, and papers into the production To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/198/Lorraine_Hansberry_writer_of_American_classics (210 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Hansberry, Larraine
		Hansberry was born in 1930, the youngest of four children of Carl and Nannie Hansberry, a respected and successful fl family in Chicago, Illinois.
		After high school Hansberry briefly attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison before moving to New York for "an education of another kind." She married Robert Nemiroff, a white Jewish intellectual who she met on a picket line protesting the exclusion of fl athletes from university sports.
		Hansberry's work was a preview of the African-American spirit that engulfed the nation in the historic changes of the Civil Rights Movement.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/hansberry_larraine.html (1147 words)

	Drama: Lorraine Hansberry
		Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Hansberry was the first fl female playwright to be produced on Broadway, and the play was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play of the Year.
		Hansberry died of cancer at the age of thirty-four.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litLinks/drama/hansberry.htm (342 words)

	Lorraine Hansberry Theatre marks 25 years of nurturing African American plays
		She is worldwide and she lives," Mamie Hansberry said of the sister whose play "A Raisin in the Sun" made history as the first Broadway drama written by a fl author (male or female).
		Joining Mamie Hansberry on Saturday night at the biggest bash in the theater's history were her daughter Nantille Hansberry Charbonnet and granddaughter Tawneya Hansberry, all of Los Angeles, and Lorraine Hansberry's cousin Doris B. Holerman of Oakland.
		Wayne Kitchen, president of the Hansberry's board of directors, said his vision for the theater involves increasing the subscriber base to about 1,200, nearly double what it is now, and someday having digs as fancy as those of the American Conservatory Theater or the Curran Theatre.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/11/DDGOLLLO581.DTL (785 words)

	Playwriting - Lorraine Hansberry
		Hansberry was the first African-American playwright, and the youngest of any color, to win the New York Drama Critics Award for her drama, A Raisin in the Sun, which opened on Broadway in 1959.
		Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 of cancer, at age thirty-four, at the peak of her career.
		The Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Plays has been published by Clark Publishing, Inc. The anthology was designed as an educational resource text for college students, professors, and all theatre professionals.
	www.kcactf1.org /playwriting_hansberry.asp (254 words)

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