Hansberry, Lorraine

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A raisin in the sun

1991
In the 1950s, an African-American family on Chicago's south side is torn by different dreams when they receive an insurance settlement: the son wants to open his own business, a liquor store; the daughter wants to go to medical school; and the mother wants to buy a home in a middle-class white neighborhood.

A raisin in the sun

1995
A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle- class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

A Raisin in the sun

the unfilmed original screenplay
1994

A raisin in the sun

a drama in three acts
1959
A three-act play concerned with the tensions in an African-American middle-class family in Chicago.

A raisin in the sun, and

The sign in Sidney Brustein's window
1995
Presents twentieth-century American playwright Lorraine Hansberry's most famous works, "A Raisin in the Sun," about inner-city African-American family life, and "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," about a man struggling in a world of racial and social injustice; also includes three essays about the plays.

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