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    Franklin Guardado Ms Aponte Tech Prep 13 May 12, 2015 Lorraine Hansberry

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    Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to parents who faced racism but refused to move when violently attacked by white neighbors in 1938, bringing a Supreme Court case. She attended the New School for Social Research and worked as a writer and editor for a progressive black newspaper. In 1956 she quit her job to focus on writing, producing her famous play "A Raisin in the Sun" about a black family struggling, which was completed in 1959 and received awards. Hansberry died in 1965 from pancreatic cancer.

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    Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to parents who faced racism but refused to move when violently attacked by white neighbors in 1938, bringing a Supreme Court case. She attended the New School for Social Research and worked as a writer and editor for a progressive black newspaper. In 1956 she quit her job to focus on writing, producing her famous play "A Raisin in the Sun" about a black family struggling, which was completed in 1959 and received awards. Hansberry died in 1965 from pancreatic cancer.

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    Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to parents who faced racism but refused to move when violently attacked by white neighbors in 1938, bringing a Supreme Court case. She attended the New School for Social Research and worked as a writer and editor for a progressive black newspaper. In 1956 she quit her job to focus on writing, producing her famous play "A Raisin in the Sun" about a black family struggling, which was completed in 1959 and received awards. Hansberry died in 1965 from pancreatic cancer.

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    Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to parents who faced racism but refused to move when violently attacked by white neighbors in 1938, bringing a Supreme Court case. She attended the New School for Social Research and worked as a writer and editor for a progressive black newspaper. In 1956 she quit her job to focus on writing, producing her famous play "A Raisin in the Sun" about a black family struggling, which was completed in 1959 and received awards. Hansberry died in 1965 from pancreatic cancer.

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    Franklin Guardado

    Ms Aponte
    Tech Prep 13
    May 12, 2015
    Lorraine Hansberry

    Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago Illinois. She is the
    granddaughter of a freed slave, and the youngest by seven years of four children. She has always
    been surrounded by good influences like her parents. Her dad was a Real Estate broker and her
    mom a teacher. She lived during the hard times of racism. Her family moved into a white
    neighborhood in 1938 and was violently attacked by their white neighbors. Even with the attacks
    and threats they might of received from the white people, they refused to move out of the
    neighborhood. Due to the attention it brought, the case made it to the Supreme Court as
    Hansberry v. Lee.
    When she moved to New York, Lorraine attended the New School for Social Research
    and then worked for Paul Robesons progressive black newspaper, Freedom, as a writer and
    associate editor from 1950 to 1953. In 1956 she quit her job and focused on writing, what she
    loved doing. She then came up with a play titled The Crystal Stair, which was about a black
    family struggling. That play was then renamed to "A Raisin in the Sun". The play was completed
    in 1961, starring Sidney Poitier, and received an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Hansberry
    was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and she died in January, 1965.

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