Student Maytal Etehad on Playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women dramatists.

Civil rights movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Look What SHE Did!, 2021.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman produced on Broadway. A Raisin in the Sun, a gritty, realistic play about a Black family's struggle to leave their oppressive tenement life behind by getting a house in the suburbs, shocked and enthralled audiences. The play ran for 530 performances. Tragically, Lorraine died at 34 of pancreatic cancer, but until the end, she fought for civil rights, women's rights and equal treatment for all people. Still paving the way for young women, Student Maytal Etehad tells us that Lorraine Hansberry inspired her to express her art "...even if it's so raw and so real."

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed April 15, 2024).

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