In the play A Raisin in the Sun wrote by Lorraine Hansberry was the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. The play has earned accolades from Broadway as well, winning Tony Awards in 2004 and 2014, including Best Revival of a Play. In 1938, Hansberry family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by neighbors. They refused to move until a court ordered them to do so, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. South Side Chicago in the 1950s was heavily segregated by white neighborhoods by sending death threats and real estate people sending them away from white neighborhoods. A Raisin in the Sun is about a small family that receives notice that they will be getting a check from the insurance company to the family. And
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She lived in a black neighborhood then moved to a white neighborhood where they received large amounts of death threats. And they stayed in that house till they were forced to leave by a court. They made a case that reached all the way to the Supreme Court. The !950s was a time period that African Americans were moving away from the south to the north. South Side Chicago after the Great Depression had houses built for increase amount of blacks coming from the south. From 1890 to 1910, Chicago’s African American population increased from 15,000 to about 40,000 due to the Great Migration. Following all the new African Americans it caused problems with discrimination with white real estate people. White neighborhoods would send death threats to any black family that moved into their neighborhood. Lorraine Hansberry purpose for creating the play A Raisin in the Sun so she could show everybody how black people struggled and how much discrimination they got, therefore to educate people that it is wrong to treat anybody
She lived in a black neighborhood then moved to a white neighborhood where they received large amounts of death threats. And they stayed in that house till they were forced to leave by a court. They made a case that reached all the way to the Supreme Court. The !950s was a time period that African Americans were moving away from the south to the north. South Side Chicago after the Great Depression had houses built for increase amount of blacks coming from the south. From 1890 to 1910, Chicago’s African American population increased from 15,000 to about 40,000 due to the Great Migration. Following all the new African Americans it caused problems with discrimination with white real estate people. White neighborhoods would send death threats to any black family that moved into their neighborhood. Lorraine Hansberry purpose for creating the play A Raisin in the Sun so she could show everybody how black people struggled and how much discrimination they got, therefore to educate people that it is wrong to treat anybody