Lorraine Hansberry Enamel Pin

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Our South side is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest – Lorraine Hansberry

Author of A Raisin In The Sun and the autobiographical play To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Lorraine Hansberry was the first Black playwright to have a play performed on Broadway. In 1938, her father bought a house in Washington Park, on the South Side of Chicago; the legal efforts of their new white neighbors to exclude the Hansberry family led to the Supreme Court decision Hansberry v. Lee, (1940), which ruled that the deed restrictions that enforced segregation were contestable - though not inherently invalid. The enforcement of these covenants was not ruled unconstitutional until 1948.

Silver nickel plated zinc alloy hard enamel pin
Measures 1.25" x 2"
Two pin posts and black rubber pin clutches