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Description: The Lorraine Hansberry Papers document Lorraine Hansberry's life as an award-winning playwright and activist, and chronicles her activities during the Civil Rights Movement. Virtually all of Hansberry's writings, autobiographical materials, journals, diaries, personal and professional correspondence are included here, as well as related materials generated by her late husband, Robert Nemiroff, and his third wife, Jewell Gresham-Nemiroff, as the executors of Hansberry's state. Significant correspondents include Daisy Bates, Louis Burnham, Julian Mayfield, Robert Nemiroff, and William Worthy. The papers are organized into four series: PERSONAL PAPERS; WRITINGS; PROFESSIONAL; LEGACY.
Names: Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 (Creator)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1947 - 1988
Library locations: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division; Shelf locator: Sc MG 680
Topics: African American authors; African American dramatists; African American political activists; African American theater; African American women; American drama -- 20th century; American drama -- African American authors; Black authors; Civil rights workers; Communists -- United States; Dramatists, American -- 20th century; Political activists; Women in the theater -- United States; Baldash, Seymour L.; Baldwin, James, 1924-1987; Bancroft, Anne, 1931-2005; Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951; Bond, Julian, 1930-; Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973; Brown, Oscar; Burnham, Louis E.; Du Bois, Shirley Graham, 1896-1977; Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; Foreman, James, 1928-2005; Gresham-Nemiroff, Jewell Handy, 1923-2005; Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965; Hansberry, William Leo; Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967; Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972; Kitt, Eartha; Lomax, Louis E., 1922-1970; Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993; Mayfield, Julian, 1928-; Nemiroff, Robert; Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965; Robeson, Paul, Jr., 1927-2014; Worthy, William, 1921-; Camp Unity (New York, N.Y.); Inter-American Congress for Peace (1952 : Montevideo, Uruguay); Labor Youth League
Genres: Diaries; Screenplays; Short stories; Correspondence; Clippings
Notes: Content: Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
Physical Description: Extent: 49 lin. ft. (93 archival boxes,13 record cartons, 2 flat boxes)
Type of Resource: Text
Identifiers: Other local Identifier: Sc MG 680; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18155611; MSS Unit ID: 20931; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b536f670-600e-0135-d8bb-01ba24a9ff24

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