Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years
By Sarah DelanyAn inspiring memoir by two lively, keen-witted African American senior citizens. In their 200+ combined years, Sadie and Bessie Delany have seen it all. They saw their father, who was born into slavery, become America's first black Episcopal bishop. They saw their mother--a woman of mixed racial parentage who was born free--give birth to ten children, all of whom would become college-educated, successful professionals in a time when blacks could scarcely expect to receive a high school diploma. They saw the post-Reconstruction South, the Jim Crow laws,
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 210 pages
- English
- 156836010X
- 9781568360102
About Sarah Delany
sarah louise "sadie" delany (september 19, 1889 – january 25, 1999) was an american educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with Read More about Sarah Delany
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