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first African American women to write a play peformed on broadway

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her father owned a bank

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She was attacked by white people

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In 1938, her family moved to a white neighborhood and then was violently attacked by the neighbors

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She married Robert Nemiroff, a Jewish publisher, songwriter and political activist.

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Loraine Hansberry's genre was domestic tragedy

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Larraine Hansberry plays also radically new reparesntation of black life

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Larraine Hansberry plays also radically new reparesntation of black life

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Lorraine Hansberry was concerned with more than one thing, she saw tension between generations, and was concerned with women and civil rights

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Lorraine Hansberry was concerned with more than 1 issue

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Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom

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She was the granddaughter of a freed slave

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Lorraine

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She inspired nina simones song "to be young. gifted and black."

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She was born in Chicago May 19 1930

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Lorraine Hansberry believed that gaining civil rights in the United States and obtaining independence in colonial Africa were two sides of the same coin that presented similar challenges for Africans on both sides of the Atlantic.

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She died of pancreatic cancer[37] on January 12, 1965, aged 34.

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After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper FreedomOn June 20, 1953,[9] she married Robert Nemiroff, a Jewish publisher, songwriter and political activist

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She was involved in the civil rights movement throughout her life.

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She died at age 34 of pancreatic cancer.
In 1938, Hansberry's family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by neighbors.

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She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. Also Hansberry has been identified as a lesbian, and sexual freedom is an important topic in several of her works

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Lorraine Hansberry Was born in Chicago.

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Throughout her life, she was involved in the civil rights movement.

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She won New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play of the year, 1959

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She was an activist

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She was the granddaughter of a freed slave.

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Lorraine Hansberry was an atheist

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Lorraine Hansberry was the first black women to write a play performed on broadway.

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Lorraine Hansberry believed that gaining civil rights in the United States and obtaining independence in colonial Africa were two sides that represented challenges in Africa and the Atlantic.

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Lorraine Hansberry was the first black woman to write a play which was preformed on Broadway.
She was the youngest American playwight to recieve the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
She worked with her husband, even after they got divorced in

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She was the youngest American to win a New York Critics' Circle award.

She died of cancer at the age of 34.