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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is rightly recognized not only as a modern masterpiece, but also as one of a very few plays that made history itself, by being the first piece written by an African American (not to mention a woman) to receive a major Broadway production. The original 1959 version, which was filmed in 1961, added new luster to the already impressive careers of such luminaries as Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ivan Dixon and Louis Gossett. In its frank portrayal of a black family attempting to gain a foothold in the American dream as they try to buy a house in an otherwise white neighborhood, A Raisin in the Sun was groundbreaking i[...]