Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Softcover

Delany, Sarah L; Delany, A Elizabeth; Hearth, Amy Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440220424 ISBN 13: 9780440220428

Publisher: Dell, 1996

Synopsis

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.

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Title: Having Our Say( The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years) <>Binding: Mass Market Paperback <>Author: SarahLouiseDelany <>Publisher: DellPublishingCompany

Review:

"I felt proud to be an American citizen reading Having Our Say...the two voices, beautifully blended...evoke an epic history...often cruel and brutal, but always deeply humane."--New York Times Book Review

"The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because he made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I even with all my wrinkles!"--Bessie Delany, at age 102

"This Jim Crow mess was pure foolishness. It's not law anymore, but it's still in some people's hearts. I just laugh it off, child. I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."--Sadie Delany, at age 104

"This book is destined to become a classic! The Delany sisters--leave to us the best of legacies-two sets of dancing footprints for us to follow all our days ahead."--Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves

"An unforgettable testimony to the dignity and courage of African-American women."--Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0440220424
• ISBN 13: 9780440220428
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320