137 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 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. /Resources 379 0 R /Annots 485 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 28 0 obj 59 0 obj When Hansberry was a child, she and her family lived in a Black neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. /Contents 450 0 R Interest in anomie, absurdity or paralysis was dismissed as liberal silliness, and an abdication of artistic responsibility. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 230 0 R << 8 0 obj /Height 500 >> /Type /Page >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 593 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. 13 0 obj endobj [20] Hansberry traveled to Georgia to cover the case of Willie McGee, and was inspired to write the poem "Lynchsong" about his case. 19 0 obj /Type /Page endobj The show ran for more than two years and won two Tony Awards, including Best Musical. 87 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Im7 163 0 R 38 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 235 0 R endobj /Resources 427 0 R << C *" /Annots 473 0 R Lorraine Hansberry, Robert A. Nemiroff (Editor), Spike Lee (Commentaries by), Margaret B. Wilkerson (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating 814 ratings published 1992 8 editions. Higashida, Cheryl, "To Be (come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry's Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism", This page was last edited on 2 March 2023, at 00:02. endobj /Parent 1 0 R Her friends rallied to keep the play running. The mythos of the first obscures so much of the communality of Hansberrys thinking. 114 0 obj 54 0 obj endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 125 0 obj Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. << /Contents 516 0 R /Contents 468 0 R endobj >> [69], In 2013, Hansberry was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display that celebrates LGBT history and people. /Parent 1 0 R It is the same idea one encounters in radical thinkers today, in Mariame Kabas notion of abolitionist feminism as a practice of freedom. /Resources 161 0 R 29 0 obj endstream >> /Annots 386 0 R She soon joined the first lesbian civil rights organization in the U.S., Daughters of Bilitis, contributing letters about women's and gay rights to their magazine,The Ladder. Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930January 12, 1965) was a playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist. 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 >> /Resources 565 0 R As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Filter /DCTDecode Her father built a real estate empire by chopping up. /Parent 1 0 R >> /Type /Page 134 0 obj /Contents 282 0 R /Type /Page >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 186 0 R [51], The FBI began surveillance of Hansberry when she prepared to go to the Montevideo peace conference. /Resources 469 0 R /Resources 607 0 R << >> /Resources 376 0 R /Type /Page /Resources 328 0 R Lorraine Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin for two years and she briefly attended the Art Institute in Chicago, where she studied painting. /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 550 0 R Free shipping for many products! /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 583 0 R >> /Annots 623 0 R /Resources 532 0 R /Annots 209 0 R << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R 73 0 obj /Resources 382 0 R /Resources 640 0 R >> /Resources 424 0 R << >> [55] However, Hansberry admired Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. << >> /Type /Page /Contents 411 0 R 6 0 obj /Contents 369 0 R /Resources 586 0 R 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 383 0 R Lewis, Jone Johnson. << /Annots 654 0 R /Resources 283 0 R 43 0 obj /Annots 215 0 R /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /Resources 499 0 R 120 0 obj 162 0 obj /Contents 414 0 R 101 0 obj /Annots 455 0 R endobj [6] The presiding minister, Eugene Callender, recited a message from Baldwin, and also a message from the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. that read: "Her creative ability and her profound grasp of the deep social issues confronting the world today will remain an inspiration to generations yet unborn." /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 622 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << It was the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 127 0 obj endobj /Resources 628 0 R /Annots 479 0 R This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger's life insurance policy. << She grew up on the south side of Chicago, a place rigidly segregated by race. /Contents 276 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 231 0 R /Resources 613 0 R /Annots 437 0 R >> /Contents 510 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." /Annots 542 0 R /Annots 398 0 R /Resources 373 0 R >> /Contents 333 0 R << /Type /Page 37 0 obj endobj /Contents 243 0 R /Contents 185 0 R [11], Hansberry graduated from Betsy Ross Elementary in 1944 and from Englewood High School in 1948. >> 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 Within two years, it was translated into 35 different languages and was performed all over the world. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> /Type /Page Sidney Poitier expressed interest in taking the part of the son, and soon a director and other actors (including Louis Gossett, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis) were committed to the performance. 144 0 obj Hansberry's uncle, William Leo Hansberry, was a distinguished professor of African history at Howard University and had made a name for himself as a specialist in African antiquity. /Contents 585 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 451 0 R Many prominent African American social and political leaders visited the Hansberry household during Lorraines childhood including sociology professor W.E.B. 75 0 obj A screenplay soon followed, to which Lorraine Hansberry added more scenes to the storynone of which Columbia Pictures allowed into the film. /Type /Page [5] Hansberry inspired the Nina Simone song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", whose title-line came from Hansberry's autobiographical play. /Annots 431 0 R 108 0 obj /Type /Page As literary executor, he edited and published her three unfinished plays: Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers? /Parent 1 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.' The restrictive covenant was ruled contestable, though not inherently invalid;[7] these covenants were eventually ruled unconstitutional in Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1 (1948). /Resources 493 0 R In 2004, A Raisin in the Sun was revived on Broadway in a production starring Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Phylicia Rashad, and Audra McDonald, and directed by Kenny Leon. endobj As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. "While working at, Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), pp. endobj /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry. >> Lorraine's uncle, William Leo Hansberry, taught African history at Howard University. >> >> endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << To this Soyica Diggs Colbert, a professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts at Georgetown University, adds her contribution with Radical Vision, positioned as the first scholarly biography. >> /Type /Page endobj 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 . endobj 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). When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. /Annots 389 0 R Both Hansberrys were active in the Chicago Republican Party. /Annots 245 0 R << /Contents 552 0 R /Parent 1 0 R [35][27], Written and completed in 1957, A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, becoming the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway. >> >> Hansberry reviewed Wrights fiction a little uncharitably, to my mind. /Annots 629 0 R /Contents 354 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] May 19, 2020, 1:06pm. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /BitsPerComponent 8 /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 335 0 R /Annots 443 0 R /Resources 562 0 R /Type /Page 153 0 obj /Contents 471 0 R 35 0 obj 53 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. Clear rating. Included are diaries, journals and autobiographical notes, information regarding education and employment, subject files, correspondence, and interviews. /Annots 632 0 R /Resources 553 0 R 76 0 obj /Annots 308 0 R endobj /Annots 608 0 R /Annots 539 0 R << 58 0 obj << She expressed a desire for a future in which "Nobody fights. Born in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry was a woman of many "firsts." She was the first African-American woman to live in her residence hall, Langdon Manor, at the University of Wisconsin in 1948. /Contents 197 0 R endobj 22 0 obj Sun Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in the Sun A Raisin in . /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Whites fought back. Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), p. 199. << endobj Patricia and Fredrick McKissack wrote a children's biography of Hansberry, Young, Black, and Determined, in 1998. Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930. << >> She tries to rouse her sleeping child and husband, calling out: Get up!. /Contents 570 0 R Du Bois, whose office was in the same building, and other Black Pan-Africanists. /Resources 406 0 R 142 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 388 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Fast Facts: Lorraine Hansberry (The notes, however, are splendid fluent, rich and full of a feeling of discovery; here she permits herself to speak more freely.) Nannie, Lorraine's mother, stood watch with a gun. >> /Parent 1 0 R [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. Hansberry's funeral was held in Harlem and Paul Robeson and SNCC organizer James Formangave eulogies. /Annots 290 0 R 71 0 obj When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. In 1969, Nina Simone first released a song about Hansberry called "To Be Young, Gifted and Black." 99 0 obj << /Type /Page This script was called "superb" but also rejected.[40]. [40] Also in 1963, Hansberry was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. /Contents 429 0 R >> endobj >> Lorraine Hansberry was a U.S. writer in the mid-1900s. A small interlude. /Resources 535 0 R endobj endobj The Interviews subseries, 1959-1963, n.d. (.2 lin. Hansberry noted similarities between Nannie Hansberry and Mama Younger and between Carl Hansberry and Big Walter. /Resources 244 0 R /Contents 513 0 R /Contents 381 0 R /Contents 498 0 R >> /Contents 252 0 R 140 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 263 0 R [24] Hansberry and Nemiroff moved to Greenwich Village, the setting of her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Her uncle William Leo Hansberry was a professor of African history. /Parent 1 0 R 18 0 obj We never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together, Nina Simone wrote of Hansberry in her memoir. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Best known for her plays, Hansberry was the first black woman to write a Broadway drama; A Raisin in the . /Annots 395 0 R /Type /Page [39] James Baldwin believed "it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which Lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page [16], Hansberry often explained these global struggles in terms of female participants. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] The Hansberry Project is rooted in the convictions that black artists should be at the center of the artistic process, that the community deserves excellence in its art, and that theatre's fundamental function is to put people in a relationship with one another. /Annots 380 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 268 0 R 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. The Hansberrys moved into the house on Rhodes Avenue in May 1937. /Parent 1 0 R << Robert Nemiroff, The New York Times profiled her, voluble, energetic, pretty and small.. /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 237 0 R /Resources 589 0 R "[37] Near the end of her life, she declared herself "committed [to] this homosexuality thing" and vowing to "create my lifenot just accept it". The result was the opening of 30 blocks of South Side Chicago to African Americans. /Resources 241 0 R /Contents 210 0 R 67 0 obj /Resources 189 0 R endobj << /Resources 358 0 R /Annots 470 0 R /Contents 495 0 R HANSBERRY, Lorraine. /Annots 281 0 R /Annots 371 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj 42 0 obj /Type /Page endobj 146 0 obj 113 0 obj << [40] She was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play, among the four Tony Awards that the play was nominated for in 1960. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj Anderson, "Freedom Family" (2008), p. 263. /Annots 614 0 R Her commitment to realism was absolute, a matter of moral principle. /Resources 325 0 R /Type /Page /Resources 262 0 R << Hansberry was the godmother to Nina Simone's daughter Lisa. Near the end of Charles J. Shields' biography of Lorraine Hansberry, the third such book I've read in as many years, the author mentions the five-story townhouse near Washington Square Park that Hansberry bought with the money she earned from the success of her play "A Raisin in the Sun."It was her home for the final five years of her life, until her death in 1965 at the age of 34. endobj endobj What would this thinking have wrought? /Parent 1 0 R (My homosexuality made both at age 29.) /Annots 584 0 R To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words is a 1969 collection of autobiographical writings by the playwright and author best known for A Raisin in the Sun. /Contents 267 0 R 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. She was a "movement baby," Colbert writes. 51 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 268269. She has a habit of making arresting asides and then refusing to follow their trail: Hansberrys writing suggests that she understood Blackness to implicitly include what we would now describe as queerness.. 123 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Type /Page The parallels to me have always felt too uncanny for it not to be homage. /Resources 340 0 R /Resources 430 0 R /Resources 313 0 R /Contents 336 0 R /Resources 526 0 R /Resources 217 0 R . /Resources 646 0 R << These years taught Hansberry the necessity of fighting on all fronts. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on BroadwayA Raisin in the Sun. But a flurry of recent renewed interest attests to how much Hansberry did accomplish the range of her interests and seriousness of her political commitments. << << /Contents 375 0 R The Double Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Out Magazine, September 1999) | by Sarah Fonseca | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. << 126 0 obj /Type /Page /Contents 480 0 R /Annots 236 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Another dim, drab room. /Resources 370 0 R /Annots 602 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] >> Watch the 2022 One Book, One Chicago keynote, Are you enjoying this season's One Book, One, Has this season of One Book, One Chicago and the, A Raisin in the Sun: One Book, One Chicago Spring 2003, Historical Context of A Raisin in the Sun, Background and Criticism of A Raisin in the Sun, Express Yourself: Creativity-Sparking Books, Wilkerson, Margaret B. endobj Hansberry seemed to anticipate it all. Someone hurled a brick through the window, narrowly missing Lorraine's head. /Parent 1 0 R 110 0 obj 155 0 obj /Resources 517 0 R 20 0 obj endobj /Type /Page 93 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R In October, Lorraine Hansberry moved back into New York City as her new play, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" began rehearsals. << 260261. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj /Parent 1 0 R Dubois, Paul Robeson, and Jesse Owens. 159 0 obj /Contents 384 0 R Best Play Prize Won By a Negro Girl, 28, The New York Herald Tribune declared. 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. /Annots 362 0 R endobj /Contents 315 0 R 115 0 obj It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution real girls talk.. /Contents 261 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 385 0 R /Type /Page In 1960, during Delta Sigma Theta's 26th national convention in Chicago, Hansberry was made an honorary member. /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Annots 464 0 R >> endobj << << It narrowly missed Hansberry, who was 7 years old. With support from her husband, Lorraine Hansberry left her position at Freedom, focusing mostly on her writing and taking a few temporary jobs. /Type /Page Each chapter is individually summarized and analyzed, and has study questions and answers. 138 0 obj /Contents 459 0 R Look at the work that awaited her. At this time, she and her husband separated, but they continued to work together. << << /Resources 226 0 R /Contents 294 0 R >> [72], In January 2018, the PBS series American Masters released a new documentary, Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, directed by Tracy Heather Strain. Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. 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. endobj >> /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 271 0 R endobj /Annots 302 0 R Wilkins, "Beyond Bandung" (2006), p. 195. 25 0 obj I feel I am learning how to think all over again, she wrote anonymously to a lesbian magazine. /Parent 1 0 R A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a Black family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Lorraine Hansberry (1930 - 1965) was an American playwright and author best known for A Raisin in the Sun, a 1959 play influenced by her background and upbringing in Chicago. >> /Resources 463 0 R endobj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 118 0 obj endobj 2 0 obj /Parent 1 0 R << /Annots 193 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Living on the Lower East Side, Lorraine was free to explore the life of . /Type /Page >> << /Annots 599 0 R Later, an FBI reviewer of Raisin in the Sun highlighted its Pan-Africanist themes as "dangerous". >> << Her grandniece is the actress Taye Hansberry. $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ? << /Annots 554 0 R Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 45. [41] Over the next two years, Raisin was translated into 35 languages and was being performed all over the world. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 401 0 R endobj /Type /Page /Type /Page [45], In 1963, Hansberry participated in a meeting with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, set up by James Baldwin. >> In 2017, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. [16], Additionally, she wrote scripts at Freedom. /Type /Page endobj /Resources 280 0 R /Parent 1 0 R 16 0 obj /Resources 571 0 R "It was 1950, exactly mid-century, and Lorraine was in the mood to change direction.
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