…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…Hansberry’s life with careful attention to her queerness, feminism, and Black radical politics in her acclaimed 2018 biography Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Dr….
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…first play by an African-American woman ever produced on Broadway. For more history and background about Lorraine Hansberry and her life in the Village, read here. Lorraine Hansberry’s home is…
Read MoreLorraine Hansberry Plaque Installation The first African American woman to write a play performed on Broadway, Lorraine Vivian Hansberry bought this Greenwich Village home in 1960. Already a Villager at…
Read More“To be Young, Gifted, and Black”: Lorraine Hansberry – A Lecture with Michele Mitchell Lorraine Hansberry is justly famous for her skills as a playwright and her political activitsm, but…
Read MoreLorraine Hansberry May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965 Playwright, Author, and Activist Hansberry was an outspoken civil rights activist whose seminal play, A Raisin in the Sun, was the…
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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…writers as residents such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, and Richard Wright. In spite of this, neither neighborhood was free of racial bias; in a notorious 1976 attack, black and…
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…Cunningham John W. Draper Bob Dylan Martha Graham Lorraine Hansberry Billie Holiday Edward Hopper Jane Jacobs Larry Kramer Helen Levitt Edna St. Vincent Millay Joan Mitchell Joe Papp Charlie Parker…
Read More…and LGBTQ+ history: Lorraine Hansberry and her Greenwich Village homes, 337 Bleecker Street (l.) and 116 Waverly Place Take our Civil Rights and Social Justice Maps LGBTQ+ Tour, with over…
Read More…plaque-unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black…
Read More…plaque-unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black…
Read More…Baldwin: Living in Fire.” “Lorraine Hansberry’s Village Voice“ New York City in the 1980s witnessed the establishment of several organizations founded by and for Black gay men. Among these organizations…
Read More…and LGBTQ+ history: Lorraine Hansberry and her Greenwich Village homes, 337 Bleecker Street (l.) and 116 Waverly Place Take our Civil Rights and Social Justice Maps LGBTQ+ Tour, with over…
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…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…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…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…historic plaques, marking the home of Lorraine Hansberry and on 27 Cooper Square, home of the Black Arts Movement. 2016 After a ten year effort, Village Preservation finally secures landmark designation of the third…
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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…Dorothy Day, Mabel Dodge, Louise Bryant, and later Lorraine Hansberry and Angela Davis find each other and found communities of dissent? Independent public historian Kathleen Hulser will explore the answers…
Read More…locations key to the founding of the ACLU and the Young Lords, and the places where Lorraine Hansberry wrote and Bella Abzug lived. Learn the former sites of some of…
Read More…proud to honor and highlight this remarkable history. Past plaques have marked the former homes of James Baldwin, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank O’Hara, Martha Graham, The Fillmore East, the San…
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…they shaped and influenced much of what we know of the Village. From Alex Haley to Audre Lorde, James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry, and so many more, see the sites…
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…rights history, including W.E.B. duBois, Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, and many more. And the Elizabeth Blackwell home, not to mention dozens of other sites…
Read More…writers and musicians, including James Baldwin, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Lorraine Hansberry, e.e. cummings, Oliver Sacks, Larry Kramer, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and Margaret Wise Brown. As a preview to…
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…to learn more about all our historic plaques, marking sites that housed great figures including James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, Lorraine Hansberry, Martha Graham, LeRoi and Hettie Jones, and many more….
Read More…View more than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating black history, from plaque unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours…
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…Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anais Nin to Alex Haley; Frank Stella to Frank O’Hara; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham; and many more. CLICK…
Read More…our plaques have honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham…
Read More…Sip-In, our plaques have honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha…
Read More…honored figures from James Baldwin to Jane Jacobs; Lorraine Hansberry to LeRoi Jones; Anaïs Nin to Alex Haley; painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham (next door to…
Read More…Robert Fisch Collection, and the San Remo cafe collection. Explore our historic plaques connected to LGBTQ+ history and figures, including Julius’ Bar, Anaïs Nin, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin (here and…
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…former homes of Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorraine Hansberry, Frank Stella, Martha Graham, Frank O’Hara, and Elizabeth Blackwell; the headquarters of the NAACP and The Crisis Magazine; Julius’…
Read More…and includes figures from Frederick Douglass to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Larry Kramer to John Brown, Lorraine Hansberry to Eleanor Roosevelt, and Amelia Earhart to Bella Abzug. Learn more about how our…
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…the spring, as well as walking tours and lectures. View more than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating black history, from plaque-unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex…
Read More…we’ll learn about women like Lorraine Hansberry who impacted the arts, literature, and culture, as well as those who fought for justice, such as Edie S. Windsor and Thea Clara…
Read More…we’ll learn about women like Lorraine Hansberry who impacted the arts, literature, and culture, as well as those who fought for justice, such as Edie S. Windsor and Thea Clara…
Read More…learn about women like Lorraine Hansberry who impacted the arts, literature, and culture, as well as those who fought for justice, such as Edie S. Windsor and Thea Clara Spyer….
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…women who impacted that arts and literature like Lorraine Hansberry and also those fighting for justice such as Edie S. Windsor and Thea Clara Spyer. This is the first of…
Read More…work do you most admire? Was it revolutionary urbanist and preservationist Jane Jacobs? Iconic photographer Berenice Abbott? Folk singer and activist Joan Baez? Playwright and civil rights leader Lorraine Hansberry?…
Read More…(Meeting location will be shared upon registration.) In between, we’ll learn about women like Lorraine Hansberry who impacted the arts, literature, and culture, as well as those who fought for…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, and many more. Explore all our historic plaques — CLICK HERE…
Read More…Celebrating PFLAG: 50 Years of Creating a Caring, Just, and Affirming World. Explore our historic plaques connected to LGBTQ+ history and figures, including Julius’ Bar, Anaïs Nin, Lorraine Hansberry, James…
Read More…to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, and many more. Explore all our historic plaques HERE…
Read More…the Pyramid Club — as well as Lorraine Hansberry’s Waverly Place residence, where we placed a plaque in 2017, and the former headquarters of the country’s first national gay rights…
Read More…Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure your spot!…
Read More…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure your spot! Click here to register…
Read More…the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry….
Read More…Lorraine Hansberry. The unveiling ceremony is open to all, but we request you register to ensure we can accommodate all. Register to attend the Roy Lichtenstein plaque unveiling this Thursday…
Read More…to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and…
Read More…than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating Black history, from plaque-unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American…
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…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former…
Read More…and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry; as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP…
Read More…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically…
Read More…Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and Julius’ Bar. You can learn more about our plaque program and explore…
Read More…to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and…
Read More…and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, the Fillmore East, and Julius’ Bar. CLICK HERE for more info +…
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