Lorraine Hansberry is an African American playwright most known for her play, A Raisin in the Sun. Most of her own life experiences were revealed in the play. A Raisin in the Sun borrows its title from the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes and it portrays a black family growing up in Chicago. It was the first play written by a black woman ever to be produced on Broadway. This piece embodies the time period because it depicts the real-life struggles a black family faced in the 50's and 60's. The racism and poverty the family overcame was unimaginable and it showed black people that everybody could overcome racism, discrimination, segregation, and poverty if they put their mind to it.
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