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   'stop being a liberal & become an american radical.'
   #art #history: poor #malcolmX, sharing a birthday with another firecracker.
   i'd seen a copy of her play, 'a raisin in the sun', lying on my mum's nightstand (i do realise now how chalk bourgeois we were) & have been intrigued ever since by its writer, lorraine hansberry (born #otd in 1930). the work itself serves up a heap of quandaries about prejudice & social hierarchy. [THREAD]
   #lorraineHansberry #literature #illustration #chicago

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     **she wrote, ‘if by some miracle women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.’ so revered was she that paul robeson & MLK jr, amongst others, eulogised her. lorraine was also godmother to nina simone’s daughter, lisa.**
     **#lorraineHansberry #ninaSimone #art #literature #paulRobeson #liberation**

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     **aged 34, she died of pancreatic cancer.
     james baldwin said, ‘it is not at all farfetched to suspect that what she saw contributed to the strain which killed her, for the effort to which lorraine was dedicated is more than enough to kill a man’.**
     **although she’d criticised existentialism, lorraine admired simone de beauvoir’s ‘the second sex’ & said that women twice oppressed might be twice militant. **
     **#lorraineHansberry #literature #illustration #simoneDeBeauvoir #jamesBaldwin**

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