Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years
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Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years by Sarah L Delany
An inspiring memoir by two lively, keen-witted African American senior citizens.
Sarah L. Delany and Dr. Elizabeth Delany were born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the campus of St. Augustine's College. Their father, born into slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, was an administrator at the college and America's first elected black Episcopal bishop. Sarah received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Teachers College at Columbia University and was New York City's first appointed black home economics teacher on the high school level. Elizabeth received her doctor of dental surgery degree from Columbia University in 1923 and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York. Dr. Elizabeth Delany died in September 1995, at the age of 104. Sarah Delany died in January 1999, at the age of 109. Amy Hill Hearth is a Peabody Award-winning writer and New York Times bestselling author who specializes in oral histories of older women.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781568360102 |
| ISBN 10 | 156836010X |
| Title | Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years |
| Author | Sarah L Delany |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Kodansha America, Inc |
| Year published | 1993-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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