![]() Hansberry broke her family’s tradition of enrolling in Southern Black colleges and instead attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Lee, ruling restrictive covenants illegal. They refused to move until a court ordered them to do so, and the case made it to the Supreme Court as Hansberry v. In 1938, Hansberry's family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by neighbors. Her parents contributed large sums of money to the NAACP and the Urban League. Hansberry’s father was a successful real estate broker, and her mother was a schoolteacher. The granddaughter of a freed enslaved person, and the youngest by seven years of four children, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry 3rd was born on May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois. ![]() Throughout her life she was heavily involved in civil rights. Hansberry was the first Black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. ![]() Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, a play about a struggling Black family, which opened on Broadway to great success. ![]()
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