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A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

1950’s Chicago

Beneatha Lena (Mama) Ruth Travis The Younger Family Walter

Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode.

The Great Migration

Sharecropping

Jim Crow Laws

Increased Racial Violence

Chicago Slum, 1950’s

Chicago Slum, 1950’s

De Jure Segregation De Facto Segregation Redlining

Beneatha Lena (Mama) Ruth Travis The Younger Family Walter

Guys Beneatha is dating George Murchison Joseph Asagai

Big Walter

Mama (Lena) Younger (65)

Walter Younger (35)

Ruth Younger (Walter’s wife)

Travis Younger (Walter’s son, 11)

Beneatha Younger (Walter’s sister, 20)

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