The Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection includes the 1969 full-cast production of A Raisin in the Sun with Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Steve Mitchell, Diana Sands, Claudia McNeil, Zakes Mokae, Harold Scott, Sam Schatt, and Leonard Jackson. The second selection is the 1972 recording of To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, a full-cast production starring James Earl Jones, with Camille Yarborough, John Towey, Barbara Baxley, Garn Stephens, Claudia McNeil and Tina Sattin. The third selection, Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out: Art and the Black Revolution, is a collection of seven interviews and speeches recorded between 1959 and 1964. Information about transcripts of several of the speeches and interviews can be found in [Primary Resources].
Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out: Art and the Black Revolution
1. “…The Beauty of Things Black—Towards Total Liberation.” An interview with Mike Wallace on May 8, 1959. 21:34
2. “…To Reclaim the African Past.” Excerpt from a radio interview with Studs Terkel on May 12, 1959. 4:10.
3. “…Integration into a Burning House.” From a radio symposium on “The Negro Writer in America” on January 1, 1961; two excerpts from a Civil War Centennial program that included James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Nat Hentoff, Alfred Kazin, and Emile Capouya. 4:49.
4. “The Black Revolution and the White Backlash.” From the Town Hall forum with Imamu Baraka, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, John O. Killens, Paule Marshall, Charles Silberman, David Susskind, and James Weschler on June 15, 1964. 10:46.
5. “We are One People!” Remarks to a civil rights rally, Croton-on-Hudson on June 16, 1963. 4:16.
6. “…My Government is Wrong.” From a speech to abolish the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, Manhattan Center on October 25, 1962. 6:13.
7. “…Towards a New Black Leadership.” Speech on the 15th Anniversary of The Monthly Review, May 15, 1964. 8:18
Hansberry, Lorraine. The Lorraine Hansberry Audio Collection. Includes full cast productions of the 1969 recording of A Raisin in the Sun and 1972 recording of To Be Young, Gifted, and Black. The final selection is Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out, a collection of seven interviews and speeches recorded between 1959 and 1964. 6 hours. Ha2: Abridged edition (April 2009).