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Film Screening: A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Chicago Public Library
Join us for a Community Cinema screening of A Raisin in the Sun. A black family living in a cramped Chicago tenement in the 1940s have the opportunity to improve their social standing via an insurance-policy check but are in disagreement about how best to spend the windfall. Lorraine Hansberry adapted the script from her hit Broadway play.Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. â 127 minutesâ TV-PG. Community Cinema is at a branch near you! Check out hundreds of other screenings at libraries across Chicago. Accessibility: English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing will be available for this screening. #BlackHistory
Age: 10—99
Cost: FREE
Type: In Person