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Ruby Dee Looks Back at 50 Years of 'Raisin'

By Natalie.Hopkinson
Created 03/13/2009 - 14:48
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'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway on March 11, 1959, rattling the theater world and the country. The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. visited with Ruby Dee at her home to reminisce about the play’s place in history and relevance today [1].

 

Read the rest of The Root’s Raisin @ 50 coverage: Black America's First Mortgage Crisis [1]. Lorraine Hansberry's Gay Politics [2]. The integration housing case behind the art [3].

Also on The Root: The Black Hair Index [4]

'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway on March 11, 1959, rattling the theater world and the country. The Root’s Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. visited with Ruby Dee at her home to reminisce about the play’s place in history and relevance today.

Read the rest of The Root’s Raisin @ 50 coverage: Gates on black America's first mortgage crisis [1]. Kai Wright on Lorraine Hansberry's gay politics [2]. Brian Gilmore on the housing integration court case behind the art [5].

Also on The Root: The Black Hair Index [4]

Source URL: http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/ruby-dee-looks-back-50-years-raisin

Links:
[1] http://www.theroot.com/views/black-america-s-first-mortgage-crisis
[2] http://www.theroot.com/views/lorraine-hansberrys-gay-politics
[3] http://theroot.com/views/not-my-backyard
[4] http://www.theroot.com/views/economic-twist-hair
[5] http://www.theroot.com/views/not-my-backyard