Lorraine Hansberry (Critical Survey of Drama)
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As a result of her involvement in the Civil Rights movement, Lorraine Hansberry wrote the narrative for The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (1964), a book of photographs, for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Because she died at such a young age, Hansberry left much of her work unpublished, but her husband, Robert Nemiroff, the literary executor of her estate, edited and submitted some of it for publication and, in the case of Les Blancs, production. In addition, he arranged excerpts from Hansberry’s...
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