Lorraine Hansberry (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930, into an upper-middle-class black family living on Chicago's racially segregated south side. Her father, Carl, was a United States deputy marshal who ran unsuccessfully for Congress; her mother, Nannie, was a Republican ward committee member who gave her daughter a white fur coat for her fifth Christmas, which provoked taunts by her classmates. In the late 1930's the family purchased a home in a white neighborhood, inciting open hostility that resulted in a brick flung through a window, barely missing Lorraine....
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