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Playwright Lorraine Hansberry.

Where does the title of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, come from?

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Lorraine Hansberry found the title for her play A Raisin in the Sun in a line in Langston Hughes’s poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred.” In the poem, which was written in 1951, Hughes asks whether a “dream deferred”—a dream put on hold—withers up “[l]ike a raisin in the sun.”