The Baldwin–Kennedy meeting of May 24, 1963, was an attempt to improve race relations in the United States. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy invited novelist James Baldwin, along with a large group
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