LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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LORRAINE HANSBERRY

• Born in 1930
• Moved to a white neighborhood when she was
  eight.
• Hansberry attended the University of Wisconsin.
• She wrote A Raisin in the Sun while in college.

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RESTRICTIVE COVENANT

• A restrictive covenant is a legal obligation
  imposed in a deed by the seller upon the buyer of
  real estate to do or not to do something.
• Examples
• November 1927 (Capitol Hill) - The parties...
  agree each with the others that no part of the
  lands owned by them shall ever be used or
  occupied by or sold, conveyed, lessed, rented or
  given to Negroes or any person of Negro blood.
• April 1928 (Broadmoor) - No part of said property
  hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by
  any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethioipian,
  Malay or any Asiatic race...

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• Moved to New York City in 1950.
• She got married in 1953 and separated four years
  later.
• A Raisin in the Sun was published and first
  performed in 1959.
• She died in 1965 of pancreatic cancer.