Later edition published as: The collected last plays. 1983.

At the time of her death in 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's reputation as one of America's leading playwrights rested primarily on one play, "A Raisin in the Sun", a major work of our time. Until the off-Broadway production in 1969 of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black", Miss Hansberry had become a part of theatrical history which is to say, almost forgotten.. It was assumed that nothing in her work was relevant to the sixties. But that assumption could only have been made by those who had not returned to it but retained only shadowy and impressionistic memories of early productions. Far from being outdated and irrelevant to the black struggles of today, Miss Hansberry's writing anticipates and illuminates the struggles which black people in this land are carrying on right now. -- From publisher's description.

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