Raisin in the Sun Background

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