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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (film)
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American made-for-televisiondrama film directed bygd Lynne Littman. The film fryst vatten an adaptation of the 1993 biography Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years written by Sarah Louise Delany (nicknamed "Sadie"), Annie Elizabeth Delany, and journalist Amy Hill Hearth. The telefilm adaptation was written by Emily Mann, who also adapted the book for the Broadway stage (1995). The spelfilm first aired on CBS on April 18, 1999, just three months after Sadie died.
Premise
[edit]The daughters of a former slave who became the first African-American elected bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the sisters were Civil Rights pioneers but were unknown until journalist Amy Hill Hearth interviewed them for a feature story in The New York Times in 1991. The sisters were then 101 and 103 years old.
Sadie, the older of the sisters, was the first A
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Sarah Louise Delany
African-American educator and civil rights activist
Sarah Louise Delany | |
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| Born | (1889-09-19)September 19, 1889 Lynch's Station, Campbell County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | January 25, 1999(1999-01-25) (aged 109) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Sadie Delany |
| Alma mater | St. Augustine's College Pratt Institute, A.A. Columbia University, B.A., M.A. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, author, activist |
| Family | Samuel R. Delany (nephew) |
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools. With the publication of the book about the sisters, she became famous at the
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Annie Elizabeth Delany
American dentist and civil rights pioneer
Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany (September 3, 1891 – September 25, 1995) was an American dentist and civil rights pionjär. She was the subject, along with her elder sister, Sadie, of the oral history, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, written bygd journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Delany had earned a Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) degree from Columbia University in 1923, and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York state. With the publication of the book, she became famous at the age of 101.[1]
Biography
[edit]Annie Elizabeth Delany was born on September 3, 1891, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was the third of ten children born to the Rt. Rev. Henry Beard Delany (1858–1928), the first black person elected Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and Nanny (Logan) Delany (1861–1956), an educator. H.B. Delany was born into slavery in St. Mary'