Lorraine Hansberry s Life As A Whole - 1461 Words

â€Å"I was born black and female.† These two words black and female identified Lorraine Hansberry’s life as a whole. Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago. She was the third youngest out of seven siblings. Her parents contributed a large amount of money to NAACP and the Urban League, because of this Hansberry was never comfortable with her rich girl status, so instead she identified herself as â€Å"poor†. She was admired by the children who were so often independent and matured which she imitated. Later on in Hansberry early life, 1938, the Hansberry moved into a white neighborhood where they were not welcomed and got attacked daily. Shortly after they moved in, Hansberry was nearly killed by a brick that was thrown by some angry†¦show more content†¦After her death, Nemiroff, her husband, still continued to collect and write her interviews in To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which set off Broadway reviews and ran for eight months straight. One of Hansberry’s major works that was considered on Broadway was A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry received an award for this play in 1959, a couple years before her death. She received the New York Critics Circle Award, which is considered to be one her best. Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American Author to be honored to produce her intelligent works that recognized her past growing up on Broadway. With such traumatic memories of Hansberry’s childhood, she incorporated into her first play the theme of a courageous decision by a black family to move into a hostage new environment setting, this theme was Racial Discrimination. Lorraine Hansberry s most popular play, A Raisin in the Sun, deals with the crucial reaction of racism on the life of the Younger’s. The Youngers are a poor black family that lives on the South Side of Chicago. As the play performs, the Younger family suffers from racial discrimination in the housing industry and their lack of unemplo yment. The Youngers took on a risk as the racist policies take the form of buying a house in a white neighborhood. The importance of the play is to unravel. Foremost, it was the first play by a talented African American woman to be presented on Broadway, and secondly, it foreshadows many issues