James Forman and Lorraine Hansberry attended the same high school, Englewood High School in Chicago. In his autobiography, James Forman discusses how he would often engage in school debates that Lorraine Hansberry also participated in.
He recounts: “Every Friday in division [a class where the sophomores and juniors were combined for twenty minutes a day], we discussed some current topic: The Un, capital punishment, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, an antilynching bill. I remember that Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright, who was one grade behind me, and I sometimes found ourselves on the same side and sometimes on opposite sides.”
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