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phy of Lorraine Hansberry, the authors tell of Hansberry's identification, from an early age, with those of her race who suffered the effects of poverty and discrimination. She left college prematurely to move to New York to start a writing career. Throughout her thirty-four-year life, she dedicated her work to civil...