Jan 5, 2010

A Raisin in the Sun | Historical Context

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s
A Raisin in the Sun directly addresses the issue of segregated housing in the United States. While many neighborhoods remain effectively segregated today, such segregation was legally enforced during the 1950s. Despite several Constitutional Amendments subsequent to the Civil War, African Americans were denied many civil rights a full century later. In 1954, the case of Brown vs. Board of Education was toed in Kansas; it reached the United States Supreme Court in 1955. The Court found that segregated education was...