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The first lady and activist came from drastically different backgrounds but bonded over their mutual belief in the power of education and desire to champion civil rights causes. By Eudie Pak. By Daina Ramey Berry. By Biography. By Brad Witter. By Barbara Maranzani. See More. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Each of the adult members of the family has an idea as to what he or she would like to do with this money. The matriarch of the family, Mama , wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she shared with her husband.

She also wishes that her family members were not so interested in assimilating into the white world. Beneatha instead tries to find her identity by looking back to the past and to Africa. As the play progresses, the Youngers clash over their competing dreams. Ruth discovers that she is pregnant but fears that if she has the child, she will put more financial pressure on her family members. She believes that a bigger, brighter dwelling will help them all. My father left the South as a young man, and then he went back there and got himself an education.

He was a wonderful and very special kind of man. He died in , at the age of fifty-one—of a cerebral hemorrhage, supposedly, but American racism helped kill him. He died in Mexico, where he was making preparations to move all of us out of the United States. He was a very successful and very wealthy businessman. He had been a U. He had founded one of the first Negro banks in Chicago. He had fought a very famous civil-rights case on restricted covenants which he fought all the way up to the Supreme Court, and which he won after the expenditure of a great deal of money and emotional strength.

The case is studied today in the law schools. Anyway, Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died.

I was fourteen at the time. Daddy really belonged to a different age, a different period. One of the reasons I feel so free is that I feel I belong to a world majority, and a very assertive one.

We were more typical of the bourgeois Negro exemplified by the Murchison family that is referred to in the play. My parents were some peculiar kind of democrats. I went to three grade schools—Felsenthal, Betsy Ross, and A. Sexton, the last of them in a white neighborhood, where Daddy bought a house when I was eight. My mother is a remarkable woman, with great courage. She sat in that house for eight months with us—while Daddy spent most of his time in Washington fighting his case—in what was, to put it mildly, a very hostile neighborhood.

I was on the porch one day with my sister, swinging my legs, when a mob gathered. We went inside, and while we were in our living room, a brick came crashing through the window with such force it embedded itself in the opposite wall.