Lorraine Hansberry

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Preface to the Vintage Edition   Jewell Handy Gresham Nemiroff Introduction: “Sweet Lorraine”   James Baldwin Foreword   Robert Nemiroff Prologue: Measure Him Right, Child Part One: “I Wish to Live …” Chicago: Southside Summers Sarah, I Kin Read White Fur in the Midde of the Depression Queen of the Ethiopes! Wisconsin: Of Vikings and Congo Drums Take …

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A Raisin in the Sun

Preface   Bonnie Greer Foreword   Joi Gresham An Expanded Production History The Primary Distinctions: Young, Female and Black, 1959-1965 Establishing the Hansberry Legacy and the Role of Robert Nemiroff, 1965-2009 Conclusion Introduction   Robert Nemiroff