How was Lorraine Hansberry childhood like?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Lorraine Hansberry was the fourth child born to Carl Augustus Hansberry(a prominent real estate broker) and Nannie Louise perry, and niece of the Africanist professor William Leo Hansberry, after whom the Hansberry institute of African studies in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria, was named. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood.

The family moved into an all-white neighborhood, where they faced racial discrimination. Hansberry attended a predominantly white public school while her parents fought against segregation.Hansberry's father engaged in a legal battle against a racially restrictive covenant that attempted to prohibit African-American families from buying homes in the area.The legal struggle over their move led to the landmark supreme court case Hansberry v. Lee, 311 U.S. 32 (1940). Though victorious in the supreme court, Hansberry's family was subjected to what Hansberry would later ironically describe as a "warm and cuddly white neighborhood" . This experience later inspired her to write her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun. Her family home at 6140 S. Rhodes Ave. has since been designated a City of Chicago landmark.

Answer 3

Southside of L.A X3