Talk:Lorraine Hansberry

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Contents 1 cleanup 2 Image:Lorrainehansberry.jpg has been listed for deletion 3 Other Stuff 4 Non sequitur 5 Practising homosexual? 6 This article as it now stands is totally inappropriate

[edit] cleanup

I attempted a cleanup, but I don't know how trustworthy anything in the article is. I've assumed the information is correct and attempted to organize it and make it sound more sophisticated. I cut several parts about Hansberry's parents as well as observations on A Raisin in the Sun. -Jen Moakler 03:32, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Deleted vandalism. Doughboy 23:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Lorrainehansberry.jpg has been listed for deletion

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another thing that should be fixed is this sentence.

"In order to move into the hood Hansberry's father had to first overcome a racially restrictive covenant that attempted to prohibit African-American families from buying homes in the area"

as well as this innaccurate sentence. "Hansberry grew up in a white, middle-class neighborhood and attended private school becuase her parents wanted her to have an amazing education."

it opposes this sentence found on a more reliable website http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/corhans.htm

"Hansberry's parents sent her to public schools rather than private ones as a protest against the segregation laws"

Yet another sentence that needs editing is this one.

"She married Robert Nemiroff, a Myspace literature student, in 1953."

how did she die?

[edit] Other Stuff

In The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Harold Cruse writes a pretty scathing commentary on Hansberry, noting her utter incomprehension of Wright's The Outsider and her lack of experience with a black working class despite her attempts to represent it. If anyone has some positive information about her, it might help, but at some point I'll likely get up some info based on Cruse's analysis of her.--Mr Bucket 03:29, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non sequitur

I've deleted the sentence at the end of the paragraph about Raisin in the Sun: "She then moved to New York City in 1950." This makes no sense, as the play debuted in 1959.

[edit] Practising homosexual?

Hansberry is listed as a practising homosexual in the list of practising homosexuals. What evidence is there that she engaged in such behavior? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.18.12 (talk) 01:57, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This article as it now stands is totally inappropriate

As of February 28, 2008, someone needs to clean this up. I will attempt to contact Wikipedia directly.Brian14leonard (talk) 17:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)