That makes A Raisin In The Sun read so much differently, now that I know her father was at the center of this case. And a woman named Anna Lee, who was white, protested and said: "You're not supposed to be here. In 1937, Carl Hansberry bought a house in West Woodlawn, which is a white neighborhood just south of the University of Chicago. In Chicago, most people don't know the story of the Hansberrys. Lee - and that was Lorraine Hansberry's father. But the precursor to that case was actually in Chicago, in Hansberry vs. In 1948, racially restrictive covenants were actually struck down by the Supreme Court. This was not unique to Chicago - you had this playing out all over the country, particularly in the Midwest. And then on the federal level, you had redlining. And you had institutions like the University of Chicago that supported those associations. Homeowner improvement associations enforced those.
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