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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.
Apr 18, 1999 · Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years: Directed by Lynne Littman. With Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan, Lisa Arrindell. Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100.
Sep 1, 1994 · Hearth's first book was the groundbreaking oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller for more than two years. The book was adapted for Broadway and for an award-winning telefilm with Hearth credited as a consultant and advisor on both productions.
- Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth
Jan 1, 2001 · Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an African-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, Having Our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first Black person permitted to ...
CBS. Release. April 18, 1999. ( 1999-04-18) Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film directed by Lynne Littman. The film is an adaptation of the 1993 biography Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years written by Sarah Louise Delany (nicknamed "Sadie"), Annie Elizabeth ...
Two pioneering African American sisters, Bessie (Ruby Dee), 101 years old, and Sadie (Diahann Carroll), 103 years old, recount the ups and downs of their lives to New York Times journalist Amy ...
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Mar 31, 2016 · 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany were the daughters of a former slave, grew up in the Jim Crow South, lived in Harlem during its renaissance, and had professional careers as a teacher and a dentist, respectively. While they make dinner to remember their father’s birthday, the two sisters tell us the story of the last ...
