In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway after a successful tour. This remarkable performance featured black cast, and staged generation that was beginning to find intellectual sources of race pride. By contrast, exactly 100 years earlier, 1859, ‘great dramatic “sensation”’ New York stage had been Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, set plantation which describes bl...
