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Who inspired the title of a raisin in the sun

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Lorraine Hansberry took the title of A Raisin in the Sun from a line in Langston Hughes's famous 1951 poem "Harlem: A Dream Deferred".
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Langston Hughes was the one who first inspired it.
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