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Feb 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers bit.ly/2FKP6KP Langston Hughes reply, 1958, to Lorraine Hansberry re. using line from his poem as title for A Raisin in the Sun: "I am happy to give you my permission and send you all my good wishes for its success." in Philip Rose Papers
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Feb 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
"Dear Mr. Hughes: I am the author of a three act dramatic play ... I have tentatively chosen as a title ... a line from one of your poems ... 'a raisin in the sun' ... " Lorraine Hansberry to Langston Hughes, 1958 in LH Papers beinecke.library.yale.edu/collections/hi… Langston Hughes reply, 1958, to Lorraine Hansberry re. using line from his poem as title for A Raisin in the Sun: "I am happy to give you my permission and send you all my good wishes for its success." in Philip Rose Papers @YCAL_JWJ
Jul 29, 2019 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
Down with the Tyrant!

Thread: call for #twitterstorians info & insight
BRBL catalog record of broadside handbill: bit.ly/2LMSpp4 (copy also @NYHistory bit.ly/2yjzVUc) ... read on ... "For nearly three years, the constant efforts of Andrew Johnson have been to put the government into the hands of the conquered Rebels. Those efforts have kept the country in agitation, confusion and disorder ... " bit.ly/2LMSpp4