Birth Name:

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry III

Female

Birth Date:

Mon, May 19, 1930

Time of Birth:

08:04 PM

Place of Birth:

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Taurus

Astrology Data:

Sun

28°

Tau

17'

Moon

21°

Aqu

19'

Asc

28°

Sco

40'

MC

14°

Vir

3'

About Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African-American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the 1940 Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust with extensive bibliography, numerous quotations, photograph gallery, biography

• "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash" (audio with transcript) – speech by Lorraine Hansberry, Forum at Town Hall sponsored by The Association of Artists for Freedom, New York City, June 15, 1964

• Petri Liukkonen. "Lorraine Hansberry". Books and Writers

• Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color – Lorraine Hansberry, University of Minnesota

• Lorraine Hansberry at Find a Grave

• Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry's Letters to "The Ladder" – Brooklyn Museum exhibition, November 2013 – March 2014

• Lorraine Hansberry at Library of Congress Authorities, with 43 catalog records

• Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart documentary on Hansberry

• Freedom, 1951–55, New York University digital archive. Monthly newspaper published by Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham. Lorraine Hansberry, "subscription clerk, receptionist, typist, and editorial assistant."

• Materials about Lorraine Hansberry in the Richard Hoffman - Lorraine Hansberry collection held by Special Collections, University of Delaware Library

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Lorraine Hansberry

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Lorraine Hansberry: Sun 28 Taurus, Moon 21 Aquarius, Mercury 28 Taurus, Venus 23 Gemini, Mars 19 Aries, Jupiter 21 Gemini, Saturn 11 Capricorn, Uranus 13 Aries, Neptune 0 Virgo, Pluto 17 Cancer, Asc 28 Scorpio, Mc 14 Virgo, Moon Trine Venus, Sun Opposition Ascendant, Moon Trine Jupiter, Sun Square Neptune, Mercury Opposition Ascendant, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Mercury Square Neptune, Sun Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Sun Semi Square Uranus, Moon Sextile Mars, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Uranus, Venus Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Sextile Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Mars Square Pluto, Saturn Square Uranus, Saturn Semi Square Ascendant, Saturn Trine Midheaven, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Ascendant, Uranus Quincunx Midheaven, Neptune Semi Square Pluto, Neptune Square Ascendant, Pluto Sextile Midheaven

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