Hansberry, Lorraine
1930–1965 Playwright whose award-winning work, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
Hansberry, Lorraine
1930–1965 Playwright whose award-winning work, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
