A Raisin in the Sun

By vwooten
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    Jim Crow laws

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    -declared "separate but equal" constitutional
  • Period: to

    Great Migration

  • Lorraine Hansberry born

  • Hansberry v. Lee

  • "Harlem" by Langston Hughes

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    -declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Central Rock High integrated- "Little Rock 9"

  • A Raisin in the Sun premiers on Broadway

    -first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway

  • MLK Jr's "I Have a Dream" Speech

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    -outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

  • Lorraine Hansberry died