Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. She dedicated her life to pursuing racial and sexual equality in the United States. Hansberry was born into a middle-class family on the south side of Chicago in 1930. She recalled her childhood as a happy one: “The insulation of life within the Southside ghetto, of what must have easily been half a million people, protected me from some of the harsher and more bestial aspects of white-supremacist culture.” When Hansberry was around eight years old, her family fought to live in a restricted white area and they were granted the permission to live in the area. However, they had to live through various violent actions and threats by angry neighbors. This incident gave Hansberry a very positive opinion of her parents. She became interested in theatre when she was in high school. “Mine was the same old story–“ she recollected, “sort of hanging around little acting groups, and developing the feeling that the theatre embraces everything I liked all at one time.” As she furthered her education at the University of Wisconsin, she became even more acquainted with great theatre.
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