This timeline chronicles the major events of Lorraine Hansberry's life, including the writing and production of A Raisin in the Sun, alongside major events affecting the lives and freedoms of African Americans in the United States at that time including Brown vs. Board, the Montgomery bus boycott, and Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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