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SparkNotes: A Raisin in the Sun: Context (1301 words) |
 | A Raisin in the Sun can be considered a turning point in American art because it addresses so many issues important during the 1950s in the United States. |
| A Raisin in the Sun remains important as a cultural document of a crucial period in American history as well as for the continued debate over racial and gender issues that it has helped spark. |
| Lorraine Hansberry took the title of A Raisin in the Sun from a line in Langston Hughes’s famous 1951 poem “Harlem.” Hughes was a prominent fl poet during the 1920s Harlem Renaissance in New York City, during which fl artists of all kinds—musicians, poets, writers—gave innovative voices to their personal and cultural experiences. |
| A Raisin in the Sun at AllExperts (543 words) |
| A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a fl woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first play with a fl director (Lloyd Richards) on Broadway. |
| In 1961, A Raisin in the Sun was adapted into a feature film starring its first-run Broadway cast of Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Roy Glenn and Claudia McNeil. |
| Spike Lee's 1994 film Crooklyn is heavily influenced by A Raisin in the Sun. |
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