Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry.
Here, for the first time, Caedmon has gathered many of her plays, interviews, and speeches into one unforgettable collection.
A Raisin in the Sun: an emotionally lacerating landmark of modem American theatre. A full-cast production starring Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: a glowing, vibrant, searing and, at the same time, redemptively joyous self-portrait. A full-cast production starring James Earl Jones.
Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out: seven interviews and speeches, recorded between 1959 and 1964, that range in topic from integration to backlash to the greatness and limitations of AfricanAmerican leadership.

Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection CD: Raisin in the Sun, To be Young, Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out

Literature & Fiction

Hansberry, Lorraine

Dramas & Plays

Caedmon

Plays on a human theme

Lee, Robert E.

Lawrence, Jerome

Chayefsky,Paddy

McGraw-Hill/Ryerson

Anastasia Colour/activity Book

Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc.

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun." "The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.

A Raisin in the Sun

Humor & Entertainment

Random House]

A 3-act drama about a young Negro who wants to move his family into a white neighborhood

Three plays about the struggles of black people convey the author's feelings of anger and frustration.

Les blancs: The collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry

Vintage Books

Signet

A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Brustein, Robert

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