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Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun A link to Amazon where you can preview and purchase this play. Lorraine Hansberry died at a very young age, 34, of pancreatic cancer. She is best remembered for A Raisin in the Sun a play inspired by her own real life struggles on the south side of Chicago. She was also very involved in politics and the Civil Rights Movement. The root inspiration for this play from the "racial issues"side stem from  her family's struggles with moving into a predominantly white neighborhood. Her father filed a law suit against the landowners association's restrictive covenants, Hansberry v. Lee. He took his law suit all the way to the supreme court and won, having the Hansberry name forever immortalized in the legal annals of landmark legal cases. Even though Carl Hansberry won his case in the highest court of the land, the US Supreme Court, he was still treated as though he had won nothing. Carl Hansberry decided that he would be better off to just move his family out of the country than to continue to live in a country that condoned such ill manored behavior. Lorraine wrote this play as an attempt to educate the masses through, dramatic play, of the social injustices that exists in Chicago a northern city. Lorraine Hansberry felt the only way social change would come was by getting the issues out in front of everyone. Tell the masses your story and some how help them make the connection that these same things could be happening to their families and things will change. Sometimes change takes a long time to ocurr, it had been a hundred years since the Civil War and many things still had not changed. But through the efforts of people like DuBois, King, Hansberry, Kennedy, Brown and others they began that painful process that is still effecting changes today. While, things did not change for Carl Hanberry's family this case served as a basis by which the Fair Housing Act did change things, and made restrictive covennants banning people based on race, religion, sex, familial status, and age illegal.
       "A Raisin," is a story about a young man, Walter, with a good job, not a great job with opportunity for advancement, but a good job. Walter wants more out life, he wants to build a busniess. A business that would become prosperous for his family and the future generations. His "Mama" wants a new house. The tragedy that sparks this conversation is all but overlooked in the play, the death of Lena's "Mama" husband. Because he had a small insurance policy it is viewed as a great win fall for the family. Mama sees as an opportunity to get a new house and Walter sees it as an opportunity to start a business that in time will afford them several new houses. Mama wants a new house now, one that will solve the current living situation, and Walter sees the new house as an additional burden on the already tight family budget. He wants the money to build a future for everyone, ignoring the risks of possible failure. Even when he is confronted with the reasons why everyone thinks this may not be a good idea he ignores them or simply refutes their comments. As it turns out Walter gets a portion of the money to invest and before the business even gets started the investor leaves with the money. Now Walter must face his family and what he will do next. Read the play to see how it turns out. I will say this, when we are being tried and facing the worst possible circumstances our true nature usually comes out, Walter is offered a bribe. He can take it, which will sovle his money problems, or take a moral stand, which may cost him more than money. Read Act 3, this is where Sidney Poitier drew his inspiration for the dramtic climax of this story, and I think he was right.