Lorraine Hansberry To Be Young, Gifted And Black on Caedmon Records TRS342 3LP
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March 19, 2014
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Lorraine Hansberry
To Be Young, Gifted And Black
On Caedmon Records TRS 342
3-LP Box Set
Condition: Cover is VG+. Records are VG+
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American and writer. She was the first black woman to write a play performed on . She lived for 34 years and inspired to write the song, "".
Her best known work, the play , highlights the lives of living under in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case . The title of the play was taken from the poem "" by : "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dealt with intellectuals like and . Much of her work during this time concerns African struggles for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry has been identified as a , and sexual freedom is an important topic in several of her works.
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