Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry was an American author of memoirs and a playwright best known for her play A Raisin in the Sun, which made her the first Black woman to author a play that was aired on Broadway. The play tells the story of the lives of African Americans subjected to racial segregation in Chicago. Lorraine’s family struggled against this segregation which eventually led to the course case of Hansberry versus Lee at the Supreme Court.