-Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people\'s lives been seen on the stage, - observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberr. -Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people\'s lives been seen on the stage, - observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959