Having

Having Our Say

By - Delany, Sarah Louise
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Kodansha International, New York, 1993
ISBN 10 - 156836010X
ISBN 13 - 9781568360102
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - 7.150 African American women Biography African Americans African Americans Biography
Shelf No - 1
common.call_no - 973.0496 DEL
common.physical_description - xiii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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,

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