/Resources 442 0 R /Contents 405 0 R 105 0 obj Hansberry's classmate Bob Teague remembered her as "the only girl I knew who could whip together a fresh picket sign with her own hands, at a moment's notice, for any cause or occasion". /Type /Page /Annots 332 0 R The 29-year-old author became the youngest American playwright and only the fifth woman to receive the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. 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. /Resources 214 0 R << /Annots 257 0 R /Resources 367 0 R Lorraine Hansberry Elementary School was located in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. These years taught Hansberry the necessity of fighting on all fronts. endobj Biography continued 2 "I was born black and female," Lorraine Hansberry said. /Type /Page The Interviews subseries, 1959-1963, n.d. (.2 lin. /Parent 1 0 R [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. /Type /Page /Annots 380 0 R >> >> 104 0 obj In 2008, the production was adapted for television with the same cast, winning two NAACP Image Awards. This stringency is curious, given Hansberrys openness when it came to tactics, her insistence that the movement required a multipronged approach. << (October/November 2012), ". /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 406 0 R endobj /Type /Page /Annots 347 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 654 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 196197. 21 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R 107 0 obj /Contents 504 0 R /Contents 378 0 R He also collected Hansberrys unpublished writings, speeches and journal entries and presented them in the autobiographical montage To Be Young, Gifted and Black. Lorraine Hansberry Papers - page 5 Hansberry's development as a playwright and intellectual is well documented, primarily through a number of interviews she gave for print and broadcast media after the success of A Raisin in the Sun. At her funeral, the Church of the Master near Harlem's Morningside Park was filled; some 700 mourners . Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. endobj In 2017, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. /Parent 1 0 R In 2013, more than twenty years after Nemiroff's death, the new executor released the restricted material to scholar Kevin J. endobj [55] However, Hansberry admired Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. 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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. Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 260. /Annots 263 0 R 14 0 obj /Type /Page /Annots 566 0 R endobj << << endobj endobj /Annots 184 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 468 0 R /Type /Page /Annots 629 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R << << >> endobj >> /Annots 212 0 R /Type /Page >> endobj She died on January 12, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. /Font << 77 0 obj One of Lorraine Hanberry's brothers served in a segregated unit in World War II. 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She grew up on the south side of Chicago, a place rigidly segregated by race. << 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 . >> /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 453 0 R Colbert adds detail and dimension to Hansberrys work covering, for instance, the years she spent writing for Paul Robesons newspaper Freedom, reporting on the Mau Mau Uprising and child labor in South Africa. 123 0 obj << She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. endobj /Contents 327 0 R [65], In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Hansberry in the biographical dictionary 100 Greatest African Americans.[66]. >> [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. 163 0 obj >> endobj /Annots 437 0 R /Contents 645 0 R endobj /Resources 451 0 R /Annots 323 0 R >> 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. Only death or infirmity can stop me now., The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/books/review-radical-vision-lorraine-hansberry-biography-soyica-diggs-colbert.html. >> /Parent 1 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R 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. /Annots 196 0 R Her father built a real estate empire by chopping up. Full Book Name:Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun Author Name:Charles J. 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Hansberry's full-page report detailed the graphic and, inevitably, frustrating encounter between officials of the Justice Department and women like Amy Mallard, the widow of a World War II veteran who had been shot to death for attempting to vote in Georgia.". /Contents 441 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [14], In 1951, Hansberry joined the staff of the black newspaper Freedom, edited by Louis E. Burnham and published by Paul Robeson. The case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court as Hansberry v. Lee, when their case was overturned, but on a technicality. endobj >> JFIF ` ` C If J. Edgar Hoover's FBI had ever edited an anthology of African American writing, Lorraine Hansberry's often-revived play A Raisin in the Sun (1959) might have been its central text.FBI officials monitored the progress of Raisin even before it premiered on Broadway, and sent an especially literate undercover agent to a Philadelphia try-out at the Walnut Theatre. /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 349 0 R << /Contents 191 0 R /Contents 543 0 R When she was 8 years old, Hansberrys family deliberately attempted to move into a restricted neighborhood. endobj endobj /Contents 194 0 R /Contents 507 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 << /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB /Annots 461 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 51 0 obj "[52], In a Town Hall debate on June 15, 1964, Hansberry criticized white liberals who could not accept civil disobedience, expressing a need to "encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical." /Annots 503 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] [64] In the introduction of the live version, Simone explains the difficulty of losing a close friend and talented artist. 162 0 obj >> Neither of the surgeries was successful at removing the cancer.Throughout the next eighteen months, Hansberry left her sickbed to participate in a number of political and artistic events. /Contents 411 0 R Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930. /Contents 396 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /Subtype /Image stream She wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. /Resources 229 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << \ Her impatience, her greed for work, for thought for more life is palpable until the end. "[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." Mrs. >> << /Type /Page /Type /Page /Contents 642 0 R 131 0 obj >> << >> >> 38 0 obj [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. /Parent 1 0 R 128 0 obj The book circles a few points very dutifully even as we feel Colbert itching to rove. At the same time, she said, "some of the first people who have died so far in this struggle have been white men. << What would this thinking have wrought? 46 0 obj Studies of Hansberry excavate her behind-the-scenes activism. 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Wilkerson has a book in the works. 28 0 obj Their goal is to create a space where the entire community can be enriched by the voices of professional black artists, reflecting autonomous concerns, investigations, dreams, and artistic expression. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre of San Francisco, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in her honor. /Annots 190 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 334 0 R /Type /Page She was a writer, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), American Playhouse (1980) and National Theatre Live: Les Blancs (2020). endobj << The mythos of the first obscures so much of the communality of Hansberrys thinking. To be young, gifted, and black. /Annots 404 0 R Her cousin is the flutist, percussionist, and composer Aldridge Hansberry. /Annots 425 0 R >> << endobj /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 488 0 R /Resources 556 0 R << endobj << A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay. /Type /XObject /Contents 528 0 R /Resources 526 0 R /Resources 565 0 R << 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]. << /Resources 189 0 R << /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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. /Annots 443 0 R She had . DuBois, poet Langston Hughes, actor and political activist Paul Robeson, musician Duke Ellington and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens. 145 0 obj Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. endobj /Annots 287 0 R [26][27][28], Hansberry was a closeted lesbian. /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 646 0 R /Resources 262 0 R /Type /Page endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 571 0 R She and her words were the inspiration for Nina Simone's song "To Be Young Gifted and Black.". The parallels to me have always felt too uncanny for it not to be homage. Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 46. Hansberry noted similarities between Nannie Hansberry and Mama Younger and between Carl Hansberry and Big Walter. /Annots 180 0 R endobj See also spokeswoman or only. 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