Immigration of black people to the north

Lorraine Hansberry 's A Raisin in the Sun

Throughout Lorraine Hansberry 's classic play A Raisin in the Sun , we watch the struggles of a poor black family against the injustices and prejudices of American in the 1950s . The play is set in the Southside of Chicago , but it could just as easily have been set in any 1950s American metropolis . Each character and each scene in the play depicts the impediments which African Americans were forced to overcome during the 1950s . Because of these impediments , we sympathize with the characters and

are appalled by the mistreatment which honest , hard working black Americans were forced to endure

The trials which each character individually , and all of the characters collectively , must endure , act as a microcosm showing what blacks were experiencing during that time period . First , they all live together in one apartment which evidences the fact that they are lower income African-Americans during this time period . Ruth and Walter Lee have one son already , but they still live with Walter Lee 's mother . In fact , they are so short on living space that their , son , Travis , sleeps on the couch

Now , at that time Americans were not as affluent as they are today , but the fact that a husband and wife and their son still live with that man 's mother shows just how poor the family was . Also , their poverty is unspoken evidence to the overt racism during that time period . Walter Lee and his wife likely would have...