Dec 21, 2009
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Lorraine Hansberry’s second Broadway play, is set in New York’s Greenwich Village in the early 1960’s. Although its action arises out of the early ferment of the 1960’s phase of the American Civil Rights movement, the play seems only indirectly connected with that movement. A Raisin in the Sun (1959), Hansberry’s first Broadway play, deals with lower-class African American life in Chicago after World War II and directly presents key African American issues of the period, such as the ways African Americans...
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