Analyzing The American Dream In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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James Truslow Adams, a well-known historian who studied at Yale University and is author of the 1931 book The Epic of America, where he states the definition of the American dream as the “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”. He also stated that “it is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position”. In knowing what the American dream is and knowing how black people were treated …show more content…

It also was not common for a woman to become a doctor at this time, but that did not stop Beneatha from trying to become one, even without support from her family (Hansberry). With running low on room for the family, the grandmother decided to take her substantial check and buy a home in an all-white suburban community outside of the south side of Chicago, with plenty of room for everyone and it had private …show more content…

leading their way ("Chicago Campaign (1966)"). On January 7 1966 King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) announces an expansion of their civil rights movements from the southern cities to the northern cities, with plans for a Chicago Freedom Movement ("Chicago Campaign (1966)"). King understood that ‘‘the moral force of SCLC’s nonviolent movement philosophy was needed to help eradicate a vicious system which seeks to further colonize thousands of Negroes within a slum environment’’ (King, 18 March 1966) ("Chicago Campaign (1966)"). King moved his family into one of Chicago’s poverty-stricken neighborhoods in January of 1966 so that he would be closer to his campaign ("Chicago Campaign (1966)"). With violent protest being held in other cities across the nations the Chicago civil rights groups wanted king to implement his ideas of a nonviolent protest methods in his campaign in the north so there would not be riots as there were in Los Angeles in the previous year ("Chicago Campaign

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