A Raisin in the Sun (Hardback) Lorraine Hansberry

2009, hardcover edition, Holt Rinehart, NY. 159 pages. Lorraine Hansberry must have realized that she had reached paradise with the opening of her play in 1959. It featured Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands, Ruby Dee, and Louis Gossett. The play was translated into 30 languages. At 29, she was a major, major success. Here is the play, A Raisin in the Sun, with other insightful work from the author, James Baldwin, Bebe Moore Campbell, Flannery O'Connor, and John Lewis on the March to Montgomery. 

November 2024