Biography
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Davis, Ossie. “The Significance of Lorraine Hansberry,” Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement. Vol. 5 No. 3 (1965): 396–402.
Graettinger, Robert. “A Raisin in the Sun As Commentary on Hansberry v. Lee.” 17 Chicago Bar Association Record (2003): 30.
Hansberry, Lorraine. To Be Young Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, adapted by Robert Nemiroff. With drawings and art by Lorraine Hansberry, an Introduction by James Baldwin, and a new Preface by Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
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Wilkerson, Margaret B. “Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian (1930–1965).” In Black Women in America: A Historical Encyclopedia edited by Darlene Clark Hine, 524–529. NY: Carlson Publishing, 1993. Online via the Black Women Writers: African, African American, and Diaspora database.
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