Born on this day, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry. Hansberry grew up on the South Side of Chicago. She was the youngest of Nannie and Carl Hansberry’s four children. Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago. Hansberry was the first black woman to have a play performed on Broadway. […]
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