What is the title of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 play, the first by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway?

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W.E.B. Du Bois introduced the concept of "double consciousness" in which of his seminal 1903 works?

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01James Baldwin's influential 1963 collection of essays on race in America is titled...?
02Which author wrote the acclaimed 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
03Langston Hughes was a central figure in which major African-American cultural movement of the 1920s?
04Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for which novel about a former slave haunted by her past?
05Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 masterpiece novel, a cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance, is titled...?
06Richard Wright's powerful 1940 novel about systemic racism and a young Black man named Bigger Thomas is called...?
07Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for which epistolary novel?
08In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for what work of poetry?
09Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953 for which landmark novel?
10What is the title of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 play, the first by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway?
11W.E.B. Du Bois introduced the concept of "double consciousness" in which of his seminal 1903 works?
12Octavia E. Butler is a celebrated, multiple award-winning author primarily in which literary genre?