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A 5 page look at this young black playwright's life in terms of Anne Cheney's 1984 biography. The paper isolates five pivotal events in Hansberry's life that made her the remarkable woman she was. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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writer who has cast a long shadow. In truth, Lorraine Hansberrys life bears little resemblance, on the surface, to that of the Younger family she describes in Raisin in the
Sun. She was born in 1930 in Chicago, IL, the daughter of successful black parents; her father was a realtor, and her mother had graduated from college. They were pillars
of the black community of Chicago, and counted among their friends many black celebrities of the day -- Paul Robeson, Jesse Owens, and Langston Hughes to name a few (OMalley,
995). Lorraines parents were extremely intent on their children being successful as well, and took a great interest in their upbringing. Part of this, they felt, was seeing that the
children have every advantage available to black children. Despite their affluence, not every advantage was available to Lorraine, because of her color.
She was forced to attend a segregated school with substandard facilities and substandard teaching; even though this was the North, white schools were not open to her. This strange paradox
-- that her parents certainly had enough money to be considered middle-class, if not more, but she was forced to attend substandard schools because of her color -- left emotional
scars that never healed (Hansberry, 52). Lorraine felt that the scars were academic as well; she was convinced that there were areas,
such as math, in which she would never be able to perform as well as children who had had better education in their formative years, despite the fact that she
was extremely gifted in English and humanities (Hansberry, 52). One could understand how this could be so; the presence of her parents and their stellar circle of friends would be
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