Having Our Say: Delany Sisters First 100 Years - Hardcover

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

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ISBN 10: 156836010X ISBN 13: 9781568360102

Verlag: Kodansha America, Inc, 1993

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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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AMY HILL HEARTH is a writer who was born in western Massachusetts but spent her childhood in South Carolina. Her career has included work as a film and drama critic, award-winning columnist, and beat reporter. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times.

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• Verlag: Kodansha America, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 156836010X
• ISBN 13: 9781568360102
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212