What was one major right given to African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement?
100
He was a Broadway producer.
What did Robert Nemiroff do for a living?
100
In a pleading manner
What is beseechingly?
100
She nurtures the plant just as she nurtures the family.
How does Mama’s plant represent how she feels about the family?
100
White Neighborhoods.
In the 1920s what type of neighborhoods did black familes start moving to that was upsetting to some?
200
Nonviolent.
The major goal preached by MLK Jr was that all protests should be ______ such as civil disobedience and peaceful protests.
200
The University of Wisconsin - Madison.
What University did Lorraine Hansberry attend?
200
Greatly irritated; angered.
What is exasperated?
200
The fifty cents symbolizes that little money can buy what you need and the one dollar represents the desires and wants of materialistic things.
What does the fifty cents and one dollar at the beginning of the play possibly symbolize?
200
Desegregation is more legal and integration is more social.
What is the main difference between desegregation and integration?
300
Blacks refused to sit at the black of the bus.
What was the Alabama bus boycott?
300
Making Lorraine Hansberry’s work widely known.
What did Robert Nemiroff devote his career to?
300
The process of a minority group being absorbed into the majority culture.
What is assimilationism?
300
There are still people fighting for equality and are holding onto hope that they will achieve it.
How might symbolism of the play relate to today?
300
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
What law was passed that banned discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin?
400
The Hansberry Case
Which court case won national attention when a black family was taken to court for moving into a white neighborhood?
400
The musical Raisin based on the Raisin in the Sun.
What did Robert Nemiroff get a Tony Award in 1974 for?
400
Said or done in an indirect manner.
What is insinuatingly?
400
The Youngers are willing to confront the prejudice they will come across when they move into the white neighborhood.
How might the new house represent courage?
400
The kitchen window represents the Youngers hope for a brighter future.
Besides Mama’s plant, what is another symbol of hope in the play?
500
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people.
What is NAACP?
500
Hansberry’s family battle against racial segregation in Chicago.
What was A Raisin in the Sun inspired by?
500
To clear of wrongdoing.
What is vindicate?
500
Just as the plant has to survive on limited exposure to its needs, African Americans struggle to survive with the limited amount of opportunities they have.
How might the plant symbolize African Americans?
500
By being quiet and eating your eggs symbolizes an acceptance of the situation that Walter and the rest of the family face in life. The eggs represent the only way Ruth feels she can support him.
What is the symbolism behind when Ruth says to Walter, “Eat your eggs”?