Lorraine Hansberry
Saanvi Kunisetty
Lorraine Hansberry was born in Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago on May 19, 1930. Hansberry’s family tried to move into a neighborhood where blacks were restricted, and a white mob through a brick through the windo, which narrowly missed Lorraine. The Illinois Supreme Court made her family leave the house, but the US Supreme Court reversed this, and gave a small section of the neighborhood to African Americans. This event later inspired Hansberry to write her play A Raisin in the Sun. After graduating high school, Hansberry enrolled in University of Wisconsin because she was interested in theater. She later studied painting in Chicago and Mexico. Then, in 1950, Hansberry moved to New York, where she got in contact with Paul Robseon, W.E.B DuBois, and Louis Burnham, and met Robert Nemiroff, a Jewish writer whom she later married. Hasnberry became an established writer, though it was very hard due to racial discrimination. She didn’t care what society told her- African Americans were looked upon lowly, but regardless of this, she made a decision to rise above everyone and shine.
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