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Family. Samuel R. Delany (nephew) Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by ...
- Sadie Delany
- January 25, 1999 (aged 109), Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (3 September 1891 – 25 September 1995) was an American civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her elder sister, Sadie, of The New York Times bestselling oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, written by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Delany had earned a Doctor of Dental ...
- Being the second African-American female dentist licensed in New York State
- Dentistry
- September 3, 1891, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.
Feb 15, 2019 · Somerset Maugham once said that "longevity is the writer's greatest tool." Maugham—who lived to be 92—would have marveled at Sadie and Bessie Delany, who co-authored their first book in 1993, when they were 103 and 101, respectively. Having Our Say (Kodansha America 1993), written with Amy Hill Hearth, projected the story of the Delany sisters
The Delany Sisters Book of Everyday Wisdom. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1993 New York Times bestselling book that was compiled by Amy Hill Hearth and contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century to a former slave.
- Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth
- 210
- 1993
- September 19, 1993
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Jan 26, 1999 · Sarah (Sadie) Delany, last of 'storied' Delany sisters, dies peacefully in her sleep at age 109, at home in Mount Vernon, New York, that she shared with her younger sister, Bessie, who died in ...
Bessie Delany’s memoir, with Sarah Delany and Amy Hill Hearth, is Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years (1993). Their second book with Hearth is The Delany Sisters’ Book of Everyday Wisdom (1995). Following Bessie’s death, Sadie wrote On My Own: Life Without Bessie (1997).
At a Glance …. Born Sarah (Sadie) Delany, September 19* 1889, and Annie Elizabeth (Bessie), September 3, 1891, both in Raleigh, NC; Bessie died September 25, 1995; daughters of Henry Beard Delany and Nanny James Logan. Education: Sadie graduated from St. Augustine ’ s in 1910, earned a B.A. from the Pratt Institute, New York, 1918, attended ...
