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Birthday of Lorraine Hansberry

May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965 (35)

Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry born in Chicago. Hansberry was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.

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