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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry

Writer

Born May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died January 12, 1965

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I Am Not Your Negro
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Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. Her family challenged legal segregation, giving rise to the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. This might have inspired Hansberry to accomplish a first: The opening of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway on March 11, 1959, which was adapted to screenplay form for two feature films. No black female author had done the former before. The play's storyline about the Youngers, a black family trying out an integrationist vision of life in spite of societal racism, resonates with Hansberry's father's legal battle from a decade earlier. Although Hansberry had many writings published and wrote other plays, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window was her only other play that got a production during her life. In 1963, Hansberry received a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, leading to her untimely death at the age of 34.

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Filmography

Actor

9

Type

Year

Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart Poster

Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart Documentary2017

I Am Not Your Negro Poster

I Am Not Your Negro Documentary2016

The David Susskind Show Poster

The David Susskind Show TV Series2012

I'll Make Me a World Poster

I'll Make Me a World Mini-Series1999

Celebrate the Dream: 50 Years of Ebony Magazine Poster

Celebrate the Dream: 50 Years of Ebony Magazine TV Special1996

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement Poster

Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement Documentary1978

Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama Documentary1975

Playwright at Work Mini-Series1961

Look Up and Live Poster

Look Up and Live TV Series1954

Writer

10

Type

Year

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs Poster

National Theatre Live: Les Blancs Feature Film2020

A Raisin in the Sun Poster

A Raisin in the Sun Feature Film2014

A Raisin in the Sun Poster

A Raisin in the Sun TV Movie2008

Les Blancs Video1998

Love to All, Lorraine TV Movie1983

American Playhouse Poster

American Playhouse TV Series1982

Die Mission TV Movie1974

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black Poster

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black TV Movie1972

A Raisin in the Sun Poster

A Raisin in the Sun Feature Film1961

Camera Three Poster

Camera Three TV Series1956

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Pretty Dudes Poster

Pretty Dudes TV Series2016

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