hspdigitallibrary:Happy Birthday to Lorraine Hansberry! Writer, activist, and Daughter of Bilitis,
hspdigitallibrary: Happy Birthday to Lorraine Hansberry! Writer, activist, and Daughter of Bilitis, Hansberry found success as a playwright for her work A Raisin in the Sun, but died of pancreatic cancer at the tender age of 34, leaving behind an unfinished novel and several other plays. Images above are taken from the book To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, adapted by ex-husband Robert Nemiroff. -- source link
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