Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth
EveryAction
MARCH 16, 2017
But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation.
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