a raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry movie

Hansberry attends International Peace Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay on behalf of Paul Robeson, who was forbidden to leave the U.S.

She meets Robert Nemiroff at a demonstration against the exclusion of black athletes at New York University.

Hansberry becomes the youngest staff member of Freedom, published by Paul Robeson.

Gwendolyn Brooks is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen.

Hansberry leaves the University of Wisconsin in February and studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago during the summer.

President Truman ends racial segregation in the U.S.

Hansberry graduates from Englewood High School and enters University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers and becomes first African American to play major league baseball in the 20th century.

Her father dies of a cerebral hemorrhage in Mexico, where he had planned to relocate his family to escape U.S.

Stewart Avenue and wins a writing award for a short story about football during her freshman year.

Hansberry enters Englewood High School at 6201 S.

The Hansberrys and the NAACP win the U.S.

A state judge rules that the Hansberrys have to move.

The Hansberry family moves to 6140 Rhodes Avenue, in an all-white neighborhood near the University of Chicago.

Hansberry begins school at Betsy Ross Elementary at 61st Street and Wabash Avenue.

Calumet Avenue on the South Side of Chicago. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry is born in Chicago on May 19, the daughter of a prominent real estate broker and the niece of a Howard University professor of African history.

A raisin in the sun by lorraine hansberry movie