"All I want is to be able to stand in front of my boy like my father never was able to do to me and tell him he'll be somebody in this world besides a servant ad a chauffeur.”
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'Raisin in the Sun' was the first play by a black playwright to enjoy full theatrical release on Broadway. Hansberry, the 28-year-old playwright, used he family stuggles against segregated housing on the South Side of Chicago as the backdrop for a place about aspiration and ambition, family and gender conflicts, racism and discrimination and how America was changing.
Mama (Claudia McNeil) instills the idead idea of chasing dreams in here children, but she demaeds that the do it with self-respect. He clashes with Walter all have to do with how a person behaves in the world.
Lorraine Hansberry, 28-year-old playwright who won the Drama Critics' Award for her first play "A Raisin in the Sun."
March 1959
Sidney Poitier converses with his wife Juanita Hardy and "A Raisin in the Sun" playwright Lorraine Hansberry at New York City's Ethel Barrymore Theater in March of 1959.
The well received Broadway play was adapted into an acclamied flim in 1961, with much the same leading players. Here, Ruby Dee, who played Ruth both on Broadway and in the movie, celebrate the movie in one sparkling moment.
John McClain, former president of the Drama Critics' Circle, presented an annual stage awards to “A Raisin in the Sun” director Lorraine Hansberry on May 4, 1959.
Sidney Poitier, along with Ruby Dee, acts in a dramatic scene from "A Raisin in the Sun."
In March 1959, as Raisin in The Sun debuted, Poitier and his real-life wife Juanita Hardy share a quiet moment away from the turmoil that marked the life of his Raisin character, Walter Lee Younger.
Gossett Jr. playing George Murchison in “A Raisin in the Sun.”
Ruby Dee celebrates at a party in honor of the play “A Raisin in the Sun.”
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