A Raisin in the Sun

CTL-E-0278 · Work · play · 1959

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1959 Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry about a Black family's dream of homeownership on Chicago's South Side.

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Lorraine Hansberry — authored by
Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play; first Broadway play by a Black woman.

Sources

Standard bibliographic record — Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959) (primary source)

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children at the table in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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