endobj /Type /Page Lorraine Hansberry Biography - CliffsNotes /Type /Page /Parent 1 0 R 80 0 obj /Type /Page 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. /Resources 415 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 624 0 R /Parent 1 0 R << /Resources 358 0 R << >> endobj Moving with her husband to Croton-on-Hudson, Lorraine Hansberry continued not only her writing but also her involvement with civil rights and other political protests. /Annots 359 0 R Her father was a real estate broker, and her mother a schoolteacher Her parents publicly fought discrimination against Black people. /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 276 0 R endobj /Resources 192 0 R /Annots 536 0 R /Annots 467 0 R /Contents 519 0 R << [14], In 1951, Hansberry joined the staff of the black newspaper Freedom, edited by Louis E. Burnham and published by Paul Robeson. << >> Lorraine Hansberry - University of Minnesota << 4 0 obj Clear rating. /Contents 567 0 R 61 0 obj /Contents 324 0 R A woman wakes, tries to rouse a sleeping child. Her impatience, her greed for work, for thought for more life is palpable until the end. The Hansberry's were routinely visited by prominent black people, including sociology professor W. E. B. /Annots 335 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 436 0 R << "Queering the borders: Lorraine Hansberry's 1957 Letters to The Ladder". >> << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 163 0 obj According to Baldwin, Hansberry stated: "I am not worried about black men--who have done splendidly, it seems to me, all things considered.But I am very worriedabout the state of the civilization which produced that photograph of the white cop standing on that Negro woman's neck in Birmingham. endobj << 147 0 obj endobj endobj /Annots 296 0 R >> >> /Resources 352 0 R >> /Annots 533 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] << /Contents 447 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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). >> Someone hurled a brick through the window, narrowly missing Lorraine's head. /Resources 568 0 R /Annots 539 0 R 148 0 obj On the night before their wedding in 1953, Nemiroff and Hansberry protested against the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in New York City. >> She wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. << Lorraine Hansberry Elementary School was located in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. endobj /Annots 410 0 R PDF The Movement LORRAINE HANSBERRY - Coppin Academy High School /Annots 446 0 R Sign In. 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. /Type /Page << >> /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 510 0 R The fascinating facts about Lorraine Hansberry following illustrate her development as a Black woman, activist, and writer. /Resources 301 0 R /Resources 289 0 R 13 0 obj Her civil rights work and writing career were cut short by her death from pancreatic cancer at age 34. Contains materials created primarily by Hansberry from 1950 until her death in 1964. >> The final journal entries burn. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /Parent 1 0 R Paul Robeson and SNCC organizer James Forman gave eulogies. /Contents 462 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 558 0 R /Parent 1 0 R God wrote it through me." 6 0 obj /Annots 503 0 R The Double Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Out Magazine, September 1999 81 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] endobj << << /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 575 0 R endobj 130 0 obj >> >> /Contents 243 0 R Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'. << >> /Contents 477 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 291 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R 17 0 R 18 0 R 19 0 R 20 0 R 21 0 R 22 0 R 23 0 R 24 0 R 25 0 R 26 0 R 27 0 R 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R 31 0 R 32 0 R 33 0 R 34 0 R 35 0 R 36 0 R 37 0 R 38 0 R 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R 47 0 R 48 0 R 49 0 R 50 0 R 51 0 R 52 0 R 53 0 R 54 0 R 55 0 R 56 0 R 57 0 R 58 0 R 59 0 R 60 0 R 61 0 R 62 0 R 63 0 R 64 0 R 65 0 R 66 0 R 67 0 R 68 0 R 69 0 R 70 0 R 71 0 R 72 0 R 73 0 R 74 0 R 75 0 R 76 0 R 77 0 R 78 0 R 79 0 R 80 0 R 81 0 R 82 0 R 83 0 R 84 0 R 85 0 R 86 0 R 87 0 R 88 0 R 89 0 R 90 0 R 91 0 R 92 0 R 93 0 R 94 0 R 95 0 R 96 0 R 97 0 R 98 0 R 99 0 R 100 0 R 101 0 R 102 0 R 103 0 R 104 0 R 105 0 R 106 0 R 107 0 R 108 0 R 109 0 R 110 0 R 111 0 R 112 0 R 113 0 R 114 0 R 115 0 R 116 0 R 117 0 R 118 0 R 119 0 R 120 0 R 121 0 R 122 0 R 123 0 R 124 0 R 125 0 R 126 0 R 127 0 R 128 0 R 129 0 R 130 0 R 131 0 R 132 0 R 133 0 R 134 0 R 135 0 R 136 0 R 137 0 R 138 0 R 139 0 R 140 0 R 141 0 R 142 0 R 143 0 R 144 0 R 145 0 R 146 0 R 147 0 R 148 0 R 149 0 R 150 0 R 151 0 R 152 0 R 153 0 R 154 0 R 155 0 R 156 0 R 157 0 R 158 0 R 159 0 R ] /Type /Page endobj /Contents 294 0 R endobj See also spokeswoman or only. Strange words of praise; meretricious even, in how they can mask the isolation they impose. endobj << /Annots 527 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 69 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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. << /Parent 1 0 R /Resources 424 0 R /Resources 397 0 R Lipari, Lisbeth. /Resources 346 0 R /Contents 312 0 R A screenplay soon followed, to which Lorraine Hansberry added more scenes to the storynone of which Columbia Pictures allowed into the film. /Contents 552 0 R /Annots 374 0 R Hansberry's formative years were spent in the social and political milieu of the black middle class: a comfortable material existence coupled with a real commitment to . She wrote under an alias, using her initials L.H., for fear of discrimination. /Contents 465 0 R endobj /Resources 325 0 R /Annots 314 0 R /Annots 329 0 R 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. << >> She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. << /Contents 342 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 archives.nypl.org -- Lorraine Hansberry papers - New York Public Library endobj >> "[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." /Annots 284 0 R /Parent 1 0 R In 1956, her husband and Burt DLugoff wrote the hit song, Cindy, Oh Cindy. Its profits allowed Hansberry to quit working and devote herself to writing. [12][23], On June 20, 1953,[12] Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff, a /Type /Page "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.' /Type /Page Written by Oscar Brown, Jr., the show featured an interracial cast including Lonnie Sattin, Nichelle Nichols, Vi Velasco, Al Freeman, Jr., Zabeth Wilde, and Burgess Meredith in the title role of Mr. >> endobj << "Biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Creator of 'Raisin in the Sun'." /Type /Page rumination on Hansberry's death, Ossie Davis (who succeeded Sidney Poitier in the role of Walter Lee) put it this way: The play deserved all thisthe playwright deserved all this, and more. /Annots 257 0 R /Type /Page Musical Drama / 9m, 6f, chorus and extras / Unit set This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record breaking national tour. 19 0 obj 79 0 obj /Contents 402 0 R /Contents 194 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Resources 541 0 R [41] Over the next two years, Raisin was translated into 35 languages and was being performed all over the world. 34 0 obj /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 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 114 0 obj I'm going to read an excerpt from my manuscript (the biography of Hansberry that I am writing) which lays out some of the historical context of the period and then begins discussing her involvement in the Left circles of New York City. >> /Contents 615 0 R /Annots 620 0 R In doing so, he blocked access to all materials related to Hansberry's lesbianism, meaning that no scholars or biographers had access for more than 50 years. endobj Despite their middle-class status, the Hansberrys were subject to segregation. /Annots 623 0 R /Contents 522 0 R Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun - Macmillan /Resources 313 0 R endobj /Type /Page Lorraine Hansberry Analysis - eNotes.com /Contents 633 0 R endobj << endobj /Resources 223 0 R /Type /Page [6] The latter's legal efforts to force the Hansberry family out culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hansberry v. 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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. << A Contemporary Theatre (ACT) was their first incubator and in 2012 they became an independent organization. << /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Parent 1 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Type /Page /Resources 625 0 R /Resources 232 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. 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A central aim of Colberts biography, as with Perrys book and Strains documentary, is to reclaim Hansberry as the radical she was. endobj Two beds are dimly seen, and at the back of the room a dormer window. endobj /Contents 237 0 R endobj /Annots 464 0 R << /Parent 1 0 R The Washington, D.C., office searched her passport files "in an effort to obtain all available background material on the subject, any derogatory information contained therein, and a photograph and complete description," while officers in Milwaukee and Chicago examined her life history. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] Kv=ZHOzWAm9$Ol f\*@c[\6q#;[+t|2F~w mFI_uz&]TNqykBZT#|5uz)B-u yVy5G:|y~_it; y?Wz>i>(tGW f ~]t vi M%icZZi>Eu3h^#aj?j"*%xvMB_;}O& 9?>Xn=Y~x` I WqUrN5!5~ RM=/qy+l_75o S|?_\}S-pp7W0. 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"Commitment amid Complexity: Lorraine Hansberry's Life in Action". endobj "It was 1950, exactly mid-century, and Lorraine was in the mood to change direction. >> /Contents 240 0 R /Contents 318 0 R endobj /Annots 551 0 R Carter, "Commitment amid Complexity" (1980), p. 49. /Resources 628 0 R /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Contents 456 0 R She was the youngest of Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry's four children. /Annots 278 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] /Annots 590 0 R << /Annots 644 0 R The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Biography Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. "[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." Yale University Press, 288 pages, $35. /Type /Page A small interlude. endobj /Resources 532 0 R 66 0 obj /Type /Page /Resources 653 0 R Lorraine's uncle, William Leo Hansberry, taught African history at Howard University. /MediaBox [ 0 0 252 331 ] 162 0 obj /Type /Page The Double Life of Lorraine Hansberry (Out Magazine, September 1999) | by Sarah Fonseca | Medium 500 Apologies, but something went wrong on our end. PDF Guide to the Lorraine Hansberry Papers - New York Public Library >> 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. >> Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. /Annots 311 0 R She is bestknown forwriting "A Raisin in the Sun," the first play by a Black woman produced on Broadway. /Type /Page Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930January 12, 1965) was a playwright, essayist, and civil rights activist. /Type /Page She underwent surgeries on June 24 and August 2 of 1963. /Contents 450 0 R 90 0 obj Living on the Lower East Side, Lorraine was free to explore the life of . [64] In the introduction of the live version, Simone explains the difficulty of losing a close friend and talented artist. << Content distributed via the University of Minnesota's Digital Conservancy may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. >> /Contents 417 0 R /Parent 1 0 R >> >> "[44], Hansberry wrote two screenplays of Raisin, both of which were rejected as controversial by Columbia Pictures. /Parent 1 0 R endobj >> 18 0 obj Lorraine Hansberry has many notable relatives including director and playwright Shauneille Perry, whose eldest child is named after her. /Type /Page Page Count 384 Genre Bios & Memoirs On Sale /Type /Page [PDF] [EPUB] Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun