Lorraine Hansberry 1930-1965 (3rd cousin 3x removed) was born in Chicago to Carl Augustus Hansberry and Nannie Louise Perry. She is famous for writing “A Raisin in the Sun”. Lorraine was the first African American woman to author a play performed on
Lorraine’s father, Carl Hansberry 1895-1946 (2 cousin 4x removed) was a real estate broker, civil rights activist, and the plaintiff it the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee. The case was about African Americans being restricted from buying real estate in white neighborhoods.
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