To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.

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Fauve

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Woman Child

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Large Soldier

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Where the Summer Goes (Chapters on Youth)

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MILA FOG

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White Forest

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Eleanor

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Malaisant

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Artun

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The Visitant

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Halfway

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Flowers

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The Greenie

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The Banker

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friendly reminder

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Transference

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Blue

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Suite for Freedom

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