Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965

found: Contemp. auth. web, 10/24/96:(Hansberry, Lorraine (Vivian), 1930-1965; born May 19, 1930, in Chicago, Ill.; died of cancer, January 12, 1965, in New York, NY; married Robert B. Nemiroff, music publisher and songwriter, June 20, 1953, divorced March, 1964)

found: African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian; Lorraine Hansberry; dramatist; born 19 May 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; studied drama and stage design at the University of Wisconsin (1948-1950), went to New York and began writing for Robeson's newspaper Freedom; attended The New School; marched on picket lines, made speeches on street corners, and helped move furniture back into evicted tenants' apartments; studied African history under W. E. B. Du Bois at the Jefferson School for Social Science; in 1959, her play A Raisin in the Sun earned the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for Best Play; died 12 January 1965 in New York, New York, United States)