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Email [2]'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 [11]. Kai Wright on Lorraine Hansberry's gay politics [12]. Brian Gilmore on the housing integration court case behind the art [13].
Also on The Root: The Black Hair Index [14]
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[12] http://www.theroot.com/views/lorraine-hansberrys-gay-politics
[13] http://www.theroot.com/views/not-my-backyard
[14] http://www.theroot.com/views/economic-twist-hair
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