Hansberry, Lorraine

Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America-and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry upke a raisin in the sun.".

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "A Raisin in the Sun," the story about tensions in a middle-class African-American family living in Chicago's South Side in the 1950s; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.

A play about a black family's struggle to buy a house in a white neighborhood, after the father dies. An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. It deals with their attempt to maintain dignity, self-respect, and a sense of humanity.

The classic play about a working-class African-American family struggling to maintain dignity in a harsh world. Features a full-cast performance.