protesting discrimination at Ne Diversity simply means differences  w York University. Nemiroff gained his huge success with his hit song, ‘Cindy, Oh Cindy’, and after Nemiroff’s success, and Hansberry’s many part time jobs, she was able to settle down and devote herself entirely to writing. While writing, it eventually took its form in a play, which came from a poem by Langston Hughes, called “Harlem”. The success of the play, A Raisin in the Sun, ended up winning the award for best play of the year, which made Lorraine Hansberry the first African American and the youngest American to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. “She used her new fame to help bring attention to the American civil rights movement as well as African struggles for independence from colonialism”(A Raisin in the S Diversity simply means differences un). After many years, Hansberry had marital problems with Nemiroff and they decided to divorce in 1964. Hansberry was only able to live long en Diversity simply means differences ough to see one other play, besides A Raisin in the Sun, be produced. On January 12, 1965, Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer at the young age of thirty-four. She ended up being one of the first playwrights to portray real Africa Diversity simply means differences n American characters and their struggles in day to day activities of African American life. This was shown in her play by the inspiration of her own family’s struggles against the legal battles in segregated housing laws during her childhood. The working title of A Raisin in the Sun was originally ‘The Crystal Stair’ after a line in an earlier poem by Langston Hughes, who was  Diversity simply means differences another African American playwright, poet, novelist, and short story writer. Hansberry ended up changing the title of her play again, after another one of Langston Hughes’  Diversity simply means differences later poems, which asked: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-and then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode” (Hughes)? Produced and finished in 1957, the play A Raisin in the Sun, was the first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. It took two years after it was finished, on March 1959, for the play to be revealed on Broadway at the Ethyl Barrymore Theater. From there, the Broadway production moved to the Belasco theatre and ran for 530 performances, where it started earning many awards. This play is unique in many aspects and covers many important issues. The play was unique because it was the first play to be produced on Broadway, written and directed by an African American and the first to have an all-black cast. The  Diversity simply means differences play gained huge success even tho>