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Summary: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1995
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Summary: "Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by the National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century. Hansberry was the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway, and the first Black and youngest American playwright to win a New York Critics' Circle Award. Charles J. Shields's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANSBERRY, LORRAINE SHICerf, Bennett
Contents: Camino Real, by T. Williams.--The dark at the top of the stairs, by W. Inge.--Sunrise at Campobello, by D. Schary.--A raisin in the sun, by L. Hansberry.--The tenth man, by P. Chayefsky.--Toys in the attic, by L. Hellman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1961
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Summary: Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America. In this unforgettable memoir, Michelle shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KUO, MICHELLE KUOPerry, Imani
Summary: "A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century"-- Best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry had an unflinching commitment to social justice which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018