Raisin In The Sun Reflection

A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry during the 1950’s. The book title is taken from a line in the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes, which is about barriers that black Americans in the 1940s and 1950s lived through. The story is told in Hansberry’s way of growing with her family in the Washington Park subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn. They believed that this was a way of attempting a better life.

Lorraine Hansberry was born May 19, 1930. She was the youngest of the four children in her family. In 1938 her family wanted to move to try to start a better lifestyle. Her father bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago. This neighborhood was a very white neighborhood and when they

The younger family are three generations of an African American family that lives in a small apartment together on the South Side of Chicago. The play is set in a postwar era that focuses in the younger family struggle’s with poverty and the big decision of moving in to a bigger house in the all-white neighborhood of Clybourne Park. The book investigates them of discrimination, black pride, gender, and sacrifices. The story is based on Hansberry’s own experiences with dealing with housing discrimination and the racially consumed peope in the Washington Park

This story was a time period that people began to challenge the way American reacts to civil rights issues. This book led to the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee. This court case was brought on due to the Clybourne community barring African Americans from purchasing or leasing land or a house in the community. The law had been in court before and in included all the neighborhood, and owners, and the members of the class. The defense said that Carl A. Hansberry (Lorraine Hansberry’s father) couldn’t contest the law because it was already been allowed and made valid by the courts in a prior