Raisin in the Sun Background

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Across
  1. 2. Supreme court case Hansberry's father won
  2. 3. Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes
  3. 6. award for Raisin in the Sun
  4. 11. when the white men went to fight this caused the North to need workers
  5. 12. husband to Lorraine Hansberry
  6. 14. Lorraine Hansberry died of this in 1965
  7. 15. separated races with law
  8. 16. poem by Langston Hughes
Down
  1. 1. separated races with tradition
  2. 4. African Americans moved North to find jobs and escape severe discrimination
  3. 5. this increased violence against blacks due to job shortages
  4. 7. African American leader
  5. 8. Refused rights to education, housing, and jobs
  6. 9. Hansberry studied this in college
  7. 10. Hansberry author of Raisin in the Sun
  8. 13. play premiered on Broadway 3/11/59 reflects society before fair housing laws enforced