hers was the human conditions as blacks experienced it. She spent much of her life making an effort to change these conditions (Cheney 140; Tripp 2).
             Lorraine Hansberry's first play was named, "The Crystal Stair." It was named after a line in the Langston Hughes poem, "Mother to Son." Lorraine later changed the title of her play to, "A Raisin in the Sun." This was as well taken from one of Langston Hughes' pieces, "A Dream Deferred" (Draper 951). Lorraine's second play was named "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window." This play never matched the success of her first play "A Raisin in the Sun." This play did use a realistic format that was drawn from her own life (Magill, Great Women...201). Lorraine wrote
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