Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

by Amy Hill Hearth (Author), Amy Hill Hearth (Author), Sarah L Delany (Author), A Elizabeth Delany (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $19.29

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.27

  An 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,