Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Lorraine Hansberry

At a time when women, people of color and homosexuals were confined to the margins of society, Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), best known for A Raisin in the Sun, challenged U.S. society to live up to its ideals. Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart tells the story of the young, gifted, black woman who chose words to fight injustice, onstage and off.

Lorraine Hansberry leans over her typewriter in her Greenwich Village apartment on Bleecker Street during her April 1959 photoshoot for Vogue. Credit: David Attie

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