Economic impact
Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' (1959), depicting a Black family's struggles against Chicago housing segregation and restrictive covenants, drawing on her family's Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.
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Lorraine Hansberry
Playwright & Civil Rights Activist
Literature & Social Justice
Signal
- Region
- Chicago
- Industry
- Literature & Social Justice
- Source file
- profiles/chicago_profiles.md:333
- Status
- published