Segregation In John Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Hansberry was raised in a racially segregated Chicago, during the time of “A Raisin in the Sun”, blacks in Chicago were racially segregated in relation to Hansberry's personal experience of Chicago life. Former slaves were moving north in look of freedom and jobs and Chicago was the place to go for numerous amounts of blacks. The number of blacks drastically and quickly expanded in Chicago, meaning that jobs were quickly taken and many were left workless and soon in debt. Everything from where they lived, to what kind of clothes they wore, to where they could eat quickly became segregated. The practices of redlining, a tool to force blacks into a certain area, meant that blacks weren't able to get out of a redlined section of Chicago because they were

Redlinings high prices would force blacks back into the poor and segregated sections of Chicago where the houses were cheap but poorly maintained and unsanitary(also known as the black belt). Lowering the price and jacking up interest rates was the sole idea of redlining because it was successful at making the prices unattainable but seem possible to the families. During this time period, some whites would go to an extreme to get rid of blacks that were not wanted in the community or just an area. There was a racial related bombing or arson every 20 days as attempts to get the negroes out of these white towns or as attempts to just straight up kill a “Negro”. Some black families started moving up in the world and started to accumulate wealth to the point where they could afford these high cost houses, the blacks were slowly moving up in the workforce. This made some children like Hansberry have more opportunities and a better life than most other black