Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years by Sarah L Delany

Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years by Sarah L Delany

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,

AMY HILL HEARTH is a writer who was born in western Massachusetts but spent her childhood in South Carolina. Her career has included work as a film and drama critic, award-winning columnist, and beat reporter. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

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ISBN 13	9781568360102
ISBN 10	156836010X
Titel	Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years
Autor	Sarah L Delany
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Kodansha America, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-11-01
Seitenanzahl	212
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