Lorraine Hansberry Portrait Session
NEW YORK - April 1959: Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry poses for a portrait in her apartment at 337 Bleecker Street (where she had written the first-ever Broadway play by an African-American woman, "A Raisin In The Sun") in April, 1959 in New York City, New York. (Photo by David Attie/Getty Images)
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