Lorraine Hansberry: An Annotated Bibliography

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born May 19, 1930 in Chicago and raised in a

middle-class family. When Hansberry was only eight years old she had her first

experience with civil rights. Her father fought a lengthy legal battle in the late 1930's

against harsh covenants which kept Chicago's blacks in the ghettos. To make a statement

the family moved into an all white neighborhood which was against the law at that time.

The house was often vandalized and the children were faced with hostility as they walked

to and from school. Hansberry's father fought the city's Jim Crow laws all the way to the

Supreme Court and won. This whole experience would later serve as an inspiration for

Lorraine Hansberry's play "A raisin in the Sun".

Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin for two years and then studied

painting in Chicago and Mexico, before she realized she had no talent for it. Moving to......

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