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Raisin in the Sun: Explore

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English 11: Fall

Primary Source Exploration for Raisin in the Sun

Primary Sources to Explore

To Be Young, Gifted & Black

Use this Collection for your first Primary Source Explore

housing protestIn Motion: The Second Great Migration (NYPL)

Includes images, photographs, maps and videos related to the Second Great Migration

Choose 1 of the following Collections for your 2nd Explore (Homework).

Raisin in the Sun

Smithsonian Collection: Raisin in the Sun 

Images related Lorraine Hansberry,  Raisin in the Sun and African American life in Chicago during the 1950s. 

From Raisin in the Sun ProductionNew York Public Library Digital Collections, from the Friedman-Abeles Photograph Collection

Includes photographs related to A Raisin in the Sun

map from of chicago census 1934Newberry Digital Collections: Great Migration in Chicago

Includes photographs, book excerpts and newspaper articles on the great migration and Chicago.

Newspaper article would you panic if a negro moved in next doorNewberry Digital Collections: Struggle for Civil Rights in the Urban North

Includes photographs, newspaper articles and explanation of civil rights and life in Chicago during first half of the 20th century.

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Primary Source Analysis Worksheets

open vs closed questions

open and closed questions