Hansberry’s drama draws on her own experiences growing up in segregated Chicago. Starting off in Chicago was a good experience at first, for example in the article it says, “Between 1915 and 1960, hundreds of thousands of black southerners migrated to Chicago to escape the violence and segregation, and seek economic freedom in the north”. But as living there continued it started getting very racist and became an unsafe place. In the article it said, “In the 1920s, however the state became a pioneer in using racially restrictive housing covenants, a type of private restriction on housing integration”. The population was growing so much that when the discrimination continued it was hard for current residents there to find jobs and even places to live.
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The blacks had there own section of the city where they lived in. When blacks decided to switch up and move into into mixed neighborhoods, ethnic white hostility grew, but after fighting over the area whites left to be dominated by blacks. That is one of the reasons why the black belt region started.In the book, “The Raisin in the Sun” Mama wanted to move to a different neighborhood for a bigger house for more room, Walter got upset because it was a white neighborhood and the Linder came to tell them not to move
The blacks had there own section of the city where they lived in. When blacks decided to switch up and move into into mixed neighborhoods, ethnic white hostility grew, but after fighting over the area whites left to be dominated by blacks. That is one of the reasons why the black belt region started.In the book, “The Raisin in the Sun” Mama wanted to move to a different neighborhood for a bigger house for more room, Walter got upset because it was a white neighborhood and the Linder came to tell them not to move