![]() ![]() ![]() DuBois, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Jesse Owens. ![]() When prominent African American community members and leaders came through Chicago, they went to the Hansberry’s home. Her parents were prominent members of the African American community and her father worked for the NAACP. Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Hansberry and her family were involved in the racial justice movements of the era. Hansberry’s father died of a cerebral hemorrhage when she was 15. Hansberry had other African American leaders in her family: her uncle William Leo Hansberry was a Professor of History at Howard University her cousin, Shauneille Perry, was one of the first African American women to direct off-Broadway. Her mother, Nannie, was a school teacher. ![]() Her father, Carl, founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for African Americans in Chicago and also ran a successful real estate business. She was raised in a strong family, the youngest of three children born to Nannie Perry Hansberry and Carl Augustus Hansberry. Lorraine Hansberry was born on at Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago. As a playwright, feminist, and racial justice activist, Hansberry never shied away from tough topics during her short and extraordinary life. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry made history as the first African American woman to have a show produced on Broadway-A Raisin in the Sun. ![]()
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