Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,083

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,083

This is the grave of Lorraine Hansberry. Born in 1930 in Chicago, Hansberry grew up in the upper middle class part of the Black community in that city. Her father made a ton of money in real estate. In 1938, they desegregated a white neighborhood, which was a physically risky thing to do. The way this usually worked was that someone would sell a house to a Black family, often because they didn’t care who they sold to and sometimes because they t…