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
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