MGH & Studs Terkel: Episode 2: Lorraine Hansberry

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In 1959 Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Soon after "A Raisin in the Sun" made history, the 28-year-old writer and activist talked to Studs Terkel about racial and gender inequity and the role of art in confronting difficult truths about our world. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. For exclusive Making Gay History bonus content, join our ⁠Patreon community⁠. ——— To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
0:06.0	a place where we're sharing new video interviews
0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
0:11.0	that didn't make it into the episodes and more.
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0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
0:28.8	Find out more at Patreon.com slash Making Gay History. or go to making gay history
0:34.0	and click on the link in our home page banner and thank you so much. You're going to I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history.
0:55.0	This season we're reaching beyond my own collection of interviews
1:01.7	to bring you voices from the Studs Circle Radio Archive.
1:05.0	The Archive holds more than 5,000 programs that the pioneering oral historian and broadcast legend
1:10.5	recorded for W.F.M.T. Radio in Chicago between 1952 and 1997.
1:16.0	And that's where we found a 1959 interview with Lorraine Hansberry,
1:20.0	the writer and activist best known for her landmark play A Raisin in the Sun.
1:25.0	It was inspired by her family's battle against housing segregation in Chicago,
1:30.0	where Lorraine was born in 1930.
1:32.0	When she was seven, her parents bought a house in a white neighborhood in defiance of a covenant
1:37.0	that banned sales to African Americans.
1:39.0	In their new neighborhood, Lorraine was the target of verbal and physical abuse, and one night white vandals through a chunk of concrete through a window, narrowly missing her.
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