Alice Childress
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Alice Childress was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades." Childress describe
Lorraine Hansberry
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and civil rights activist. She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
Hansberry c. 1965
From 1953 to 1960, Hansberry resided in the third-floor apartment of 335–337 Bleecker Street.
Hansberry lived in Greenwich Village, 112 Waverly Place, from 1960 until 1965