Walter is all about being great and climbing the social class in the society. The play was A Raisin in the Sun, a story about a black working-class family in Chicago trying to escape the ghetto. [applause]. Nemiroff, Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, 21. 7. Lena knows that money is not everything provided that the family is healthy and happy everything is okay. The ruling in Hansberry v. Lee helped to outlaw housing discrimination across the country. [applause] I think that then it wouldn't – when that becomes true, some of the really eloquent things that were said before about the basic fabric of our society, which after all, is the thing which must be changed, you know, [applause] to really solve the problem, you know. TUESDAY FEB. 9,2021 AT 6PM. And then I noticed the reaction, starting in Washington and coming on up to New York among what we are all here calling the white liberal circles which was something like, you know, "You Negroes act right or you're going to ruin everything we're trying to do." Code Switching Code Switching by WHRO Public Media 8 years ago 57 minutes 54,909 views Code-Switching looks at how the inability to switch from informal speech … but copying is not allowed on our website. Conclusively, the author clearly shows that Walter does not care about anything else apart from the check they are about to receive. James Wechsler, a columnist for the New York Post, was another of the white panelists. Robert Nemiroff, Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out: Art and the Black Revolution, 12. But the problem is that Negroes are just as segregated in the city of Chicago now as they were then [laughter] and my father died a disillusioned exile in another country. Black people had ignored the theater because the theater had always ignored them. I would like to submit that the problem is that, yes, there is a problem about white liberals. 3. If two laws combat each other, people must choose one to follow. You know. We've tried it all. For writer James Baldwin, the most striking thing about the play was what it did for African Americans. Orginal air date is 05/12/1959 We ain’t never been that poor. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, intro by Dr. Charles McKinney. 13. Lorraine Hansberry, the Love of Freedom, and the Freedom of Love. This is seen as a way of climbing up the social class in the society. [applause] That is to say that a distinguished American thinker can literally say that he is more disturbed at the sight of a mixed couple or that anti-Semitism from Negroes – and anti-Semitism from anybody is horrible and disgusting and I don't care where it comes from – but anti-Semitism, somehow, from a Negro apparently upsets him more than it would from a German fascist, you see. It's because that since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation from petition to the vote, everything. It received its first debut on Broadway in the year 1959. [laughter] And that got me to thinking more seriously about the strategy and the tactic that the stall-in intended to accomplish. Her speech is terse and cool. "9 Meanwhile, Nat Hentoff argued in the Village Voice that the white panel members were "estranged from Negro reality." In the Greek play, Antigone, author Sophocles displays […], Antigone is a Greek Tragedy written by Sophicles. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings. Having tried "respectable" ways to battle injustice, she said, it was time to get radical. LORRAINE HANSBERRY, intro by Ruby O’Gray. 5. In addition, Money easily tears families apart if every member is always chasing it as conflicts are bound to happen. In May 1964, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry gave a speech to the six black teenage winners of a creative writing competition. My brother fought for this country, my grandfather before that and so on and that's all a lot of nonsense when we criticize. Despite all, in the end, a family is what comes first. Walter tries to show the reader that money is the center of everything, having it one can be able to attain any social class they desire. In 1937, Hansberry's parents challenged Chicago's restrictive housing covenants by moving into an all-white neighborhood. In the begging of the play Walter hurriedly rushes in and asks Did it come? Her father founded Lake Street Bank, one of the first banks for blacks in Chicago, and ran a successful real estate business. "1 Hansberry's success helped open doors for scores of black writers and artists who followed, both in theater and the wider cultural mainstream. It has been plaguing humanity since its beginnings. Etocles and Poyneices, two brothers, are fighting for the throne. Many strong friendships and relationships come to an end with the cause being money. Like “Of love and my parents, there is little to be written; their relationship to their children was utilitarian. Excerpt featured in Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses, 1619 to the Present, ed. Who needs it?" The publication had a strong socialist bent and Hansberry declared optimistically to a friend that it would become "the journal of Negro liberation.