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Your PSA should integrate all three major authors/works from this unit: Hughes, King, Jr., and Hansberry using quotes, characters, settings, or imagery / symbols. You could create a three-part ad (10 seconds each) or a three or six-panel storyboard. Use chronological order: Hughes, King, and then Hansberry.
Your PSA should address the topic of dreams, either the promise or corruption of the American dream, and/or the causes or effects of a “dream deferred” based on racial exclusion or lack of opportunity.
Your PSA should be one full page (if print), using both graphics and text; or, it should be a 30-second commercial using visuals, text, and sound/music to convey its message.
Images/Symbols to consider:
“The Blank Check” from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” or the insurance check from A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun from A Raisin in the Sun and

Langston Hughes’ “Harlem”
Nationalism imagery (America vs. Africa): “flag” and “spear”; “marching songs” from A Raisin in the Sun
Home / food imagery: “I spec you better come ’round here from time to time to get yourself some decent home-cooked meals . . .” from A Raisin in the Sun
Plant / Garden imagery: “I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home.” from A Raisin in the Sun
The “Crystal Stair” symbol: “life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” from Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”
Work / job / imagery: “A job. Mama, a job? I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, “Yes, sir; no, sir; very good, sir; shall I take the Drive, sir?” Mama, that ain’t no kind of job . . . that ain’t nothing at all.” from A Raisin in the Sun or Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”