Dr. King in his office at Southern Christian Leaders Conference Headquarters in Atlanta
The Negro Motorist Green-Book
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), adapted by Robert Nemiroff (1929–1991)
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
ca. 1966
Lorraine Hansberry Papers, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black was an Off Broadway play about playwright Lorraine Hansberry, adapted from her published and unpublished works by her ex-husband and collaborator, Robert Nemiroff, after her premature death. This first page of a draft script features several elements of Hansberry’s oeuvre, including fragments of her views on art and a scene from A Raisin in the Sun, the enormously successful play that in 1959 made history as the first work by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. The play catapulted Hansberry to fame at the age of 29. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black takes its title from a phrase of Hansberry’s. It captures the celebration and possibilities of Black experience and talent that Hansberry embodied in her life and dramatized in her work.
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