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Lorraine Hansberry with her typewriter. Photo: David Attie

Lorraine Hansberry and the House That Inspired 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Daniel Hautzinger

The essential play A Raisin in the Sun is based on its playwright Lorraine Hansberry's own experience as a child moving into an all-white Chicago neighborhood, a situation that produced a Supreme Court case. Revisit the story here.
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