A Raisin in the Sun
-- American play
-- by Lorraine Hansberry
-- 1959
-- based on her father’s fight against racist housing laws
-- title comes from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”
-- the Younger family attempt to move into an all-white Chicago suburb
-- face discrimination
-- first play by an African American woman to be performed on Broadway
-- tore down racial stereotypes found in other works at the time
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