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...carried from the Charleston Movement, spilled over into the class room. In the 95 degree heat of the South Carolina lowland summer, they voluntarily attended classes six hours a day. They started classes themselves when the teachers were late. They stayed after classes were supposed to end, talking about Raisin in the Sun, set theory, Storm Thurmond, and Malcolm X. Most of them did more homework in those six weeks than they had in the previous year. None droped...
Midnight in Jerusalem. Playwright James Baldwin, Negro Actress (Raisin in the Sun) Claudia McNeil, and the rest of the cast of Baldwin's touring Amen Corner arrived at Israel's new National Museum for a special post-performance visit. The others dutifully viewed the artifacts and prepared to leave, but Claudia had discovered the antique jewelry and stood mooning over the ancient necklaces, rings and Yemenite bridal costumes. "Leave me alone," she murmured as they tried to pry her away. "I'm staying here all night." Museum Director Teddy Kollek finally brought her out of the trance...
...high acclaim at the age of 22--thus following the lead of Britain's famed William Devlin, who first played the role at the same age. Mr. Scott, who was a drama critic for the Summer News in 1959, has recently been playing the leading role in "A Raisin in the Sun" and will appear in Albee's "Tiny Alice" this month...
...addition, a special book on the civil rights movement will be on sale. A documentary of various SNCC activities in different cities, the book has a text written by Lorraine Hansberry, author of Raisin...
Died. Lorraine Hansberry, 34, U.S. Negro playwright, daughter of a well-to-do Chicago real estate operator, who wrote and tore up three plays before finding herself with A Raisin in the Sun, a refreshingly honest, wryly humorous study of big-city tenement life that showed Negroes as all-too-human beings instead of ranting symbols of oppression, winning her the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and earning some $300,000 in movie rights; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which examined Greenwich Village's demimonde, opened last...