num_pages: 320
description: 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, Harlem's Golden Age, and the Civil Rights movement--and, in their own feisty, wise, inimitable way, they've got a lot to say about it.More than a firsthand account of black American history, "Having Our Say" teaches us about surviving, thriving, and embracing life, no matter what obstacles are in our way.
language: English
title: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
titlecomplete: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
genres: Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Adult, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 13935
publisher: Dell