Carl Augustus Hansberry (April 30, 1895 – March 17, 1946) was an American real estate broker and political activist , and was plaintiff in the 1940 Supreme Court decision Hansberry v. Lee . He was also the father of award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry and the great-grandfather of actress Taye Hansberry .
6-488: Hansberry may refer to: Carl Augustus Hansberry (1895–1946), American real estate broker and political activist Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright, author of A Raisin in the Sun, the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway Hansberry v. Lee , a 1940 U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt with a racially restrictive covenant Topics referred to by
12-573: A young man, Hansberry moved to Chicago , as part of the Great Migration . He married Nannie Louise Perry of Columbia , Tennessee , the daughter of George Perry, a minister, and his wife, Charlotte "Lottie" Organ. Together Carl and Nannie had four children: When his youngest child was eight years old, Hansberry bought a house in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago that was restricted to whites. The family
18-462: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Carl Augustus Hansberry Carl Augustus Hansberry was born on April 30, 1895, in Gloster, Amite County, Mississippi . He was a son of Elden Hayes Hansberry and Pauline (Bailey) Hansberry. He and his older brother, William Leo Hansberry , were raised by their stepfather, Elijah Washington. As
24-530: The court rejected the specific restrictive covenant impacting the Hansberry family without ruling on the constitutionality of restrictive residential covenants in general. In 1940, Hansberry made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. In the wake of that loss and frustrated by the pervasive racism in the United States , he made plans to move his family to Mexico. While visiting Mexico, Hansberry suffered
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36-499: Was met with intense hostility by local residents. The Kenwood Improvement Association filed a mandatory injunction for the Hansberry family to vacate their home which was granted by a Circuit Court judge and upheld on appeal by the Illinois Supreme Court . Hansberry challenged the ruling, which led to the landmark U. S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee (1940). In a unanimous opinion rendered November 12, 1940,
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