{"value"=>"<p>The Correspondence subseries is divided into two categories: Professional and Organizations. The Professional sub-subseries, 1952-1967, (. 8 lin. ft), offers a glimpse of Lorraine Hansberry's professional life as a writer and her march toward fame as documented in the correspondence. The writer's belief that an artist should be actively involved in society, and that art needs to have a political message is well documented in these files. An engaged and proactive citizen, Hansberry regularly wrote the editors of local and national publications on a number of arts and social justice issues, national and international. Publications include The New York Times, Daily Worker and the Village Voice newspapers and Seventeen and Negro Digest magazines. Her correspondents, many of whom were also engaged in art and progressive politics, include James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Anne Bancroft, Julian Mayfield and Arna Bontemps. Additionally several of the multiple projects on which she worked are documented here.</p>"}