... is about the lives of black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. The title comes from the poem Harlem, in a 1951 collection by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black female author to be performed on Broadway. It was filmed in 1961 with its original Broadway cast (led by Sidney Poitier), and has been adapted for radio and television. It has seen several theatre revivals, including one at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in 2010.
Lorraine Hansberry was the inspiration behind Nina Simone's song Young, Gifted and Black. She died of cancer in 1965, at the age of 34.
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