Lorraine Hansberry was an African-American author, activist and playwright. She is particularly famous because she was the first black woman who authored a play that was performed on Broadway. When she was young, her house received the visit of prominent black intellectuals, as Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois, something that for sure inspired her for her future work. When she was 20 years old, and after studying at the University of Wisconsinâ??Madison and Mexico, she moved to New York City to pursue a writer career, she wrote about feminist and racial issues.
She had a decent childhood, despite segregation. She was raised by her mom, Leona Edwards McCauley, and maternal grandparents, Sylvester & Rose Edwards. Her dad, Jim McCauley, left for good when Rosa was 5 and Sylvester was 3. She never saw him again until she and Raymond were married. She moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her grandparents, and worked on a cotton field with her brother. They worked everyday in the fall for a white farmer, sunrise to sunset. slavery had been outlawed but Rosa's childhood was not far from it. She went to church, and was a very religious person.
The main conflict of Lorraine and her mom was with her father, Lorraine's father cheated on her mother when she was pregnant with Lorraine.
Lorraine Jensen
That is the usual spelling of the female given name Lorna, from a Scottish place name. A rarer variant is Lorrna.
Pancreatic Cancer
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It was Lorraine Vivian Hansberry.
Lorraine Hansberry's birth name is Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian.
Lorraine Hansberry's middle name is Vivian
The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre was created in 1981.
Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930.
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