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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

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, Harlem's Golden Age, and the Civil Rights movement — and, in their own feisty, wise, inimitable way, they've got a lot to say about it.More than a firsthand account of black American history, "Having Our Say" teaches us about surviving, thriving, and embracing life, no matter what obstacles are in our way.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780440220428
  • Genres
  • memoir, biography, history, autobiography, womens, adult
  • Release date
  • 1994