• The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre of San Francisco, which specializes in original stagings and revivals of African-American theatre, is named in her honor.
  • Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling Black family, which opened on Broadway to great success.
  • Hansberry, Lorraine, To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, introduction by James Baldwin, Penguin Books, 1969.
  • Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in 1959 by Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38096345.
  • A white guy named Karl wants to buy their new house it's up to Walter will he give into his ego or stand up for his family? 1. Lorraine Hansberry.
  • In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway—A Raisin in the Sun.
  • 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.
  • Raisin made Lorraine Hansberry a force to reckon with in the theater world. James Baldwin, with whom Hansberry had draw close, wrote
  • Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
  • With support from her husband, Lorraine Hansberry left her position at Freedom, focusing mostly on her writing and taking a few temporary jobs.