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Lorraine Hansberry

Born May 19, 1930 Lorraine Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood. After a long battle with pancreatic cancer she died on January 12, 1965 at the age of 34. According to James Baldwin, Hansberry was prescient about many of the increasingly troubling conditions in the world, and worked to remedy them with literature. Baldwin believed "it is not at all far-fetched 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." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry) Lorraine Hansberry Famous Plays/Works
 * A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
 * A Raisin in the Sun (film), screenplay (1961)
 * A Raisin in the Sun (TV film), produced (2008)
 * On Summer (Essay) (19??)
 * The Drinking Gourd (1960)
 * The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (1964)
 * The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1965)
 * To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words (1969)
 * Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays / by Lorraine Hansberry Edited by Robert Nemiroff (1994)

Other Sources
 * http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/corhans.htm
 * http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap8/hansberry.html
 * http://aalbc.com/authors/lorraine.htm