A list of proposed writing projects from September, 1960. Included are a play about Mary Wollenstonecraft, the 18th century philosopher and advocate of women’s rights; an opera about Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Haitian revolutionary; a crossed out The Drinking Gourd, a teleplay about the Civil War and slavery that Lorraine was commissioned to write by NBC studios that was cancelled due to it being too radical; and a musical drama, The Sign in Jenny Reed’s Window, which was renamed The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window and would be the second—and last—Hansberry play to be produced on Broadway in her lifetime.
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