…for NAACP,” it took place in Washington Square Park, and among the speakers was Greenwich Village’s own Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry was the co-chair of the National Association for the Advancement…
Read MoreLorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930. The trailblazing playwright, activist, and Nina Simone song inspiration was perhaps most closely associated with Chicago, but in fact she lived,…
Read More…Hansberry’s transcendence as one of the most celebrated playwrights of the last century. Cover of The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964). Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12,…
Read More…of Village Preservation, Greenwich Village resident, and townhouse real estate specialist for Douglas Elliman. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/martha-graham-village-voices-audio?si=711f59832c164ba8bd69613409ab20f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in Greenwich Village…
Read More…Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute. Via http://lhlt.org/gallery/lorraine-home Lorraine Hansberry’s Village Voice: Playwright, activist, and villager Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her award-winning play “A Raisin in the Sun,” which premiered…
Read More…for The Ladder, an early lesbian publication. Hansberry had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. Lorraine Hansberry…
Read More…20th Century. 19. Lorraine Hansberry, 335-337 Bleecker Street & 112 Waverly Place Lorraine Hansberry singing with Nina Simone (1963); via NYPL, Music Division Born in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright…
Read More…charge. (Note plaque is on the Crosby Street Side.) Photos of dedication event here: http://bit.ly/blackwellphotos and video here: http://bit.ly/blackwelldedication Elizabeth Blackwell Plaque at 58 Crosby Street Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry The first African…
Read More…Waverly Place and 337 Bleecker Street – Lorraine Hansberry 337 Bleecker Street (left), Lorraine Hansberry (center), and 116 Waverly Place (right) Trailblazing playwright, author, and activist Lorraine Hansberry’s first apartment…
Read More…backs when GOAL would march by in their early years, the NYPD marching band now marches along with GOAL each year in the Pride Parade. 5. Lorraine Hansberry Residences, 337…
Read More…a family name. Lorraine Hansberry Residence, 112 Waverly Place Lorraine Hansberry Residence, 112 Waverly Place Born in 1930, Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright and activist most commonly associated with Chicago,…
Read More…dedication ceremony is here. Lorraine Hansberry 337 Bleecker Street (left), Lorraine Hansberry (center), and 112 Waverly Place (right) The first African American woman to write a play performed on Broadway,…
Read More…the unveiling ceremony here and video here.) Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright and activist most commonly associated with Chicago, but studied at the New School after moving to…
Read More…a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in the neighborhood. The inspiration behind Nina Simone’s “To be Young, Gifted, and Black,” Hansberry…
Read More…hangers-on, and always there was drinking and conviviality.” Finally, it has come to our attention that a well-known photo of Baldwin dancing with Lorraine Hansberry (below) is not what it…
Read More…Rights Movement: James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. While the meeting famously did not end well, it served as the catalyst that changed Kennedy forever and the origins of a national reckoning…
Read More…writers over the last 200 plus years. Ahead, learn about just some of the cornucopia of great wordsmiths who have called the Greenwich Village Historic District home, from Thomas Paine to Lorraine Hansberry….
Read More…Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier in the film version of A Raisin In the Sun. Hansberry’s classic tale of a family struggling against…
Read More…Sidney Poitier in the original Broadway production of “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959); photo via NYPL 11. First Black Woman to Have Her Play Produced on Broadway Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning…
Read More…Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Leroi Jones Elizabeth Blackwell: Take A Tour of Five Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo where Elizabeth Blackwell…
Read More…catalyzed and inspired by the 1959 production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, which gave Black theater people such as Ward, Hooks, and Krone the opportunity to work together….
Read More…Street Players. The playwriting legacy of 112 Waverly continued when Lorraine Hansberry moved in in the early 1960s (Village Preservation unveiled a plaque marking Hansberry’s presence here in 2018). She…
Read More…shaped modern dance. Uta Hagen — Highly influential actress, dramatist, teacher, and human rights advocate. Lorraine Hansberry — Celebrated playwright and civil rights activist, her “Raisin in the Sun” was…
Read More…revolutionized and profoundly shaped modern dance. Uta Hagen — Highly influential actress, dramatist, teacher, and human rights advocate. Lorraine Hansberry — Celebrated playwright and civil rights activist, her “Raisin in…
Read More…Movement resulting from a seminal meeting with two of the Village’s most prominent voices on the African-American Civil Rights Movement: James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Also critical was the organizer of…
Read More…Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lorraine Hansberry; 27 Cooper Square, home of the Black Arts Movement; the site of the first meeting of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays…
Read More…lesbian organization in the United States. By 1957, New Yorkers were beginning to comment on the absence of a chapter in New York City. Lorraine Hansberry anonymously wrote a blurb…
Read More…States. By 1957, New Yorkers were beginning to comment on the absence of a chapter in New York City. Lorraine Hansberry anonymously wrote a blurb in The Ladder (the organization’s…
Read More…about the transformation of this site from a late 19th century mansion to a 20th century movie house. Laurence Fishburne Inspired by productions of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the…
Read More…Michael Basquiat, Lorraine Hansberry (we unveiled a historic plaque at her home this past year), and James Baldwin, as well as the spot where Billie Holiday first sang “Strange Fruit,” Angela Davis’s…
Read More…1910s, also knew and worked with many great local leaders, including W.E.B. Du Bois. 1955 “Freedom” issue. Photo courtesy of NYU via Wikipedia. Trailblazing activist, playwright, and Greenwich Villager Lorraine Hansberry…
Read More…Basquiat and Lorraine Hansberry; 27 Cooper Square, home of the Black Arts Movement; the site of the first meeting of Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG); and…
Read More…to comment on the absence of a chapter in New York City. Lorraine Hansberry anonymously wrote a blurb in The Ladder (the organization’s newsletter, which had become the first nationally…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
Read More…organized into five categories—African-American history, LGBT history, women’s history, social justice and political activism, and Hispanic history. Some sites are even members of several categories, like the Lorraine Hansberry Residence,…
Read More…African-American history sites on the map include: The former headquarters of the NAACP, where the iconic “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” flag flew The homes of James Baldwin and Lorraine…
Read More…in our neighborhoods. In this way he is aligned with many prominent African American figures who found a home here, from James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry, and so many more….
Read More…and became a hub for civil rights organizations, grassroots movements, and spirited debates on racial equality. Legendary figures such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Nina Simone frequented Village coffeehouses…
Read More…examples of what it had to struggle against) had a home here too. Great writers, thinkers and activists of color including Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Marsha P. Johnson, Silvia Rivera,…
Read More…absence of a chapter in New York City. Lorraine Hansberry anonymously wrote a blurb in The Ladder (the organization’s newsletter, which had become the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in…
Read More…group. 133 Second Avenue circa 1983. Image by Carole Teller, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. A 1959 production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking…
Read More…Draper, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Hopper, Helen Levitt, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joan Mitchell, Joe Papp, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Maurice Sendak, Patti Smith,…
Read More…the history of Clara Lemlich and the 1909 shirtwaist strike, which led to the founding of Women’s History Month; the residences of Lorraine Hansberry, Emma Lazarus, Inez Milholland, and more;…
Read More…era playwright Lorriane Hansberry crafted her groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun while residing at 337 Bleecker Street, and W.H. Auden could be found writing volumes of poetry at…
Read More…Hansberry Theater and the Mercer Brecht on the main floor and four cabaret theaters and rehearsal space on the second. The Times called the center “a Lilliputian-sized theater with the…
Read MoreOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Witnesses point towards the fleeing gunman moments…
Read More…Martin Luther King holiday. “Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, sparked a fifteen year campaign spearheaded by Howard Bennett to…
Read More…on the map include the former NAACP Headquarters where the iconic “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday” flag flew; the homes of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hanseberry; Cooper Union, where Abraham Lincoln,…
Read MoreOn April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Witnesses point towards the fleeing gunman moments…
Read More…balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This ended the life of one of the 20th century’s most revered and influential figures. It also began a 15-year campaign to…
Read More…his wife Lorraine closed the Vanguard the next day. The day after that, though, she opened its doors again. Now almost 85 years running, the Village Vanguard continues as a…
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