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          6. Lorraine Hansberry

          African-American playwright and author (–)

          Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, – January 12, ) was an American playwright and writer.[1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.

          Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred?

          Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award – making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so.[2] Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the U.S.

          Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.

          After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she worked with other