A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a dramatic play written in 1959. The play is about an African-American family who lives on the South Side of Chicago in the United States. 1950s. Hansberry shows the struggles and difficulties the family faces due to discrimination. Inspired by her personal experience of discrimination, she uses the characters from the play A Raisin In The Sun to show how this issue affects families. Hansberry faces housing discrimination because of her race, which affects her family. According to Susan Chenelle and Audrey Fisch of The New York Times, her father Carl Hansberry bought a house for his family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s (Chenelle & Fisch, 2014). At that time, there was a restrictive racial covenant that protected homes from being purchased or occupied by African Americans. This family was therefore expelled by law. He sued and the case went to the Supreme Court around 1940, but he did not win due to the constitutionality of the racially restrictive covenants. Fortunately, in 1948 the court ruled that this pact was discriminatory....