A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1959)

On the kitchen windowsill of a cramped South Side apartment, Mama keeps a feeble little plant that has never once had enough sun, and she waters it anyway. Into this household, where five Youngers share a bathroom down the hall and a child sleeps on the living-room couch, comes a ten-thousand-dollar insurance check, the whole of a dead man's life turned into cash. Everyone wants it for a different dream. Walter Lee, who drives a rich white man's car, wants a liquor store and the dignity of being his own man; Beneatha wants medical school; Mama wants a house with a patch of yard, in a neighborhood that happens to be white. Lorraine Hansberry knew that street from childhood, when her own father moved the family past a hostile line and fought the case to the Supreme Court. So when a soft-spoken man arrives offering good money for the Youngers to stay where they belong, the play holds its breath, and so will you. Watch what Walter Lee decides to do with his father's life.