Discuss Lorraine Hansberry's a Raisin in the Sun, Written in 1959

Essay

Discuss Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, written in 1959, in the context of the kind of issues that were at the center of the civil rights marches of the 1960s. Discuss As Is by William Hoffmann or The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer (both produced in 1985) in the context of the treatment and understanding of gays at the height of the AIDS crisis.