The first page of Lorraine’s grade school autograph book; she graduated in January, 1944. While many middle-class black families sent their children to private schools, the Hansberry’s sent Lorraine to the South Side public school, Betsy Ross Elementary, in solidarity with the poor and working-class black community.
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