Events › Film Screening: A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Join us for a Sunday matinee screening of A Raisin in the Sun.

A black family living in a cramped Chicago tenement in the 1940s have the opportunity to improve their social standing via an insurance-policy check, but are in disagreement about how best to spend the windfall. Lorraine Hansberry adapted the script from her hit Broadway play.

©Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. -- 127 minutes. -- TV-PG.

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How to Attend
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Accessibility
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing will be available for this screening.