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Groundbreaking playwright, essayist and advocate for change, Lorraine Hansberry authored A Raisin in the Sun, becoming the first Black woman to have a Broadway show produced, the first Black playwright and youngest American to receive the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best American Play (1959), and the first Black American to win the Drama Desk Award. To Hansberry, the play expresses an America where “we have among our miserable and downtrodden ranks people who are the very essence of human dignity.” As Hansberry reminded Studs Terkel, “in order to create the universal, you must pay attention to the specific.” And, Hansberry said: “the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women;” those who are “twice oppressed” may become “twice militant.” Both reminders resonate in revivals through Hansberry’s particularities of Chicago racism, Black women’s lives, and universal dignity, commitments equally manifest in her civil rights efforts.
Black & white photos, some shocking, documenting the Civil Rights movement at the time.
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A paperback edition with copious black and white photographs throughout. There is foxing and toning throughout but the text and illustrations are clear and legible. There is rubbing and wear to the edges of the cover and spine. There is a previous owner’s blue ink inscrition on the inside front page.
There is a tear to the bottom front edge of the spine.
Publisher: Penguin Books, Hamondsworth.
Publication Date: 1965.
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| Weight | 0.440 kg |
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