#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

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