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middle class family as the youngest of four children. Her father was a successful real estate broker who also founded one of the first Negro banks in Chicago (Adams 247). Lorraine’s mother was a schoolteacher named Nannie Perry who later became a ward committeewoman. In 1938, Lorraine’s father took a stand against the real estate covenants in Chicago due to the fact that they legally promoted housing discrimination. He chose to move his family into a predominantly white neighborhood to prove his point

church. He devised a theory that the earth along with the other planets revolved around the sun. This theory disagreed with Aristotle and the old teachings that the universe revolved around the earth, and that man was the center of the universe.

to play video games. My three favorite video games are: Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, Baldur’s Gate: Dark

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sent job applications to different businesses in Chicago and Boston; using made-up names, they discovered the name which were more “black sounding” were fifty percent less likely to be contacted by the employer (Feagin 143). Racism is just as real today as it was in the 1930s when Lorraine Hansberry, a black American writer, was born. Hansberry was born in Chicago to her activist parents Carl and Nanny. Both of her parents participated in many black activist

A Raisin in the Sun author, Lorraine Hansberry grew up in the middle-class of Chicago. Although she was separated from the lower-class, she still was categorized as a “lower-class,” and restricted to the ghettos. A Raisin in the Sun takes place in the 1950s. Even though slavery ended in 1865, racism didn’t end. Segregations, unequal hiring, and such practices around the United States started to die down around the 1960s. A Raisin in the Sun portrays the struggle for African-Americans during this

in. Breathe out. Take in the air, the bite of the wind, rush of cars and gaze up at the skyscrapers above. For some, Chicago is just another location, a point on the map, but for me it has a special place in my heart, due to the weather, its stunning beauty and the way it gives me a sense of belonging. Beginning, my memories of Chicago are tied to one specific yet beautiful time I went to Grant's Park in the spring. The first element that made this trip truly amazing was the weather. Of course,

playwright of A Raisin in the Sun and one human that was personally affected by racism. From a young age, Hansberry suffered from racism at a higher standpoint. As her father being a successful real estate broker and her mother a schoolteacher, her family didn’t suffer from being poor as in money, but in connections.

In the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun she brings to light the life as an African American in a metropolitan area in the nineteen-fifties and sixties. At the time, her play brought insight to the African American plead for freedom to move up in their communities and to have equal opportunity to have their own American dream. Her understanding of African American family was really shown in this play with the formation of the family who was struggling with the loss of the father of the

Robert G. Spinney, writer of “City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago,” and Richard Wright, writer of “Native Son,” cover the division in the city of Chicago. Spinney takes a look at the history of Chicago and how it has always been divided. This intern will evolve, creating a pattern as Chicago becomes a bigger more diverse city. While Wright shows the sociological basis of a person, and how it affects their identity. The identity in a person then effecting how that person might not “see” events

As you begin to compare the time period in which A Raisin in the Sun was written, the 1950s, and now, you can find many similarities and differences regarding racial equality in the Chicagoland, even more specifically the south side. The Younger family, deriving from the African American descent, in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, has trouble finding happiness when they are surrounded by successful white people, while they are stuck living in a two bedroom apartment and struggle to make ends meet. In