Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - Brossura

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

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ISBN 10: 0440220424 ISBN 13: 9780440220428

Casa editrice: Dell Pub Co, 1996

Riassunto

A collection of humorous and inspirational quotes by a feisty pair of century-old sisters offers advice on living a long life while reflecting on the monumental changes in African-American history throughout their lifetimes. Reprint.

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"I felt proud to be an American citizen reading Having Our Say...the two voices, beautifully blended...evoke an epic history...often cruel and brutal, but always deeply humane."—New York Times Book Review

"The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because he made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I even with all my wrinkles!"—Bessie Delany, at age 102

"This Jim Crow mess was pure foolishness. It's not law anymore, but it's still in some people's hearts. I just laugh it off, child. I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life."—Sadie Delany, at age 104

"This book is destined to become a classic! The Delany sisters—leave to us the best of legacies-two sets of dancing footprints for us to  follow all our days ahead."—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves

"An unforgettable testimony to the dignity and courage of African-American women."—Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

L'autore:

Sarah L. Delany and Dr. Elizabeth Delany were born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the campus of St. Augustine's College. Their father, born into slavery and freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, was an administrator at the college and America's first elected black Episcopal bishop. Sarah received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Teachers College at Columbia University and was New York City's first appointed black home economics teacher on the high school level. Elizabeth received her doctor of dental surgery degree from Columbia University in 1923 and was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York. Dr. Elizabeth Delany died in September 1995, at the age of 104. Sarah Delany died in January 1999, at the age of 109.
Amy Hill Hearth is a Peabody Award-winning writer and New York Times bestselling author who specializes in oral histories of older women.

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• Editore: Dell Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0440220424
• ISBN 13: 9780440220428
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 299