Carl Hansberry, an African American real estate broker, moved his family in 1937 into this three-flat at 6140 Rhodes Ave. in Chicago in defiance of a restrictive covenant. The legal and social ordeal that followed inspired his daughter Lorraine later to write the play “A Raisin in the Sun.” (Zbigniew Bzdak / Chicago Tribune)
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