May 8, 1959 interview of Lorraine Hansberry by Mike Wallace Wallace!!! - A MUST-LISTEN-TO!!!!

[Sandra Rivers]

Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright of "A RAISIN IN THE SUN" -- interview by Mike Wallace.  Wallace unpacks all of his RACIST, white-supremacy and Lorraine responds with hit-after-hit—out-of-the-park, crushing Wallace with EVERY REALISTIC ANALYSES of usa RACISM!!!:  the below URL is the audio of the May 8, 1959 interview.

http://rhoneedifies.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html

(It takes several minutes for the interview to start)

This interview is (also) available on the LORRAINE HANSBERRY AUDIO COLLECTION (cover photo available from amazon.com) produced by Caedmon, an imprint of HarperCollins. An incredibly important collection. -RF.

MUCH THANKS TO Rhone Fraser  who Posted this Audio  - part of Mike Wallace’s/60 Minutes’?? ……… “gallery of interesting people” (series) -- in a May 19th, 2011 honoring of the 81st anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's birth on  

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For narcissistic (i.e. the PAY-FOR kind) academia pieces –:

 

 

Full Text (PDF)

Beyond Bandung: The Critical Nationalism of Lorraine Hansberry, 1950-1965 Radical History Review Spring 2006 2006(95): 191-210;

http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2006/95/191.full.pdf

 

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“Commitment amid Complexity: Lorraine Hansberry's Life in Action”

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/467027?uid=3739832&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21100714073221