Having Our Say by Sadie and Bessie Delany The social, cultural and political history of America as it affects the life course of American citizens became very real to us as the Delany sisters, Sadie and Bessie, recounted their life course spanning a century of living in their book "Having Our Say." The Delany sisters’ lives covered the period of their childhood in Raleigh, North Carolina, after the "Surrender" to their adult lives in Harlem, New York City during the roaring twenties, to a quiet
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of Bessie Delany In this assignment, Professor Alton Clark Dubois’ Social Work 319 class was required to read the book; having Our Say by the Delany sisters’ first hundred years (Delany, Delany, & Hearth, 1993). Author Amy H. Hearth co-wrote this inspiring book alongside sisters Bessie and Addie Delany. “This book is woven from thousands of anecdotes that I coaxed from the Delany sisters’ during an 18-month period (September 1991 to April 1993)” wrote Hearth (Delany, Delany, & Hearth,
Having Our Say “The truth is you’re born a certain way and there’s some things you can change and some things you can’t” One of the many smart truthful things that Elizabeth Delany (Bessie) said. As Bessie and Sarah Delany (Sadie) grow up, the book Having our Say by Amy Hill Hearth and the two sisters follows every bit of the sisters lives through their own eyes just as they remembered it. As the two “colored” women are born and raised in the south they are raised on the campus of Saint Augustine’s school
tremble with the hard push of her shoulders” (50). Delany doesn’t show the same ways of thinking that candido does when it comes to family, Delany is totally fine with kyra being the bread getting realtor wife. As long as he is supported with his wants to write articles about nature and animals. Delaney does begin got start to show signs of a small mental breakdown after hitting candido on the way to his routine trip to the recycling place. Delany does not worry about his wife in the way that candido
scale, living from 1889 to 1999, as Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany did, is not something to be overlooked. In fact, Sadie and her younger sister Annie Elizabeth Delany’s (also known as Bessie) total age was 213 years old! That is incredibly aspiring, given the fact that these two women witnessed a century of oppression and subjugation. Having Our Say is the story of these remarkable sisters, with the opening of the film showing us the sisters as old women in 1991 and then flashing back to their early
was curious, I heard the garage door open to find my mom coming through the front door with a dismal look on her face and white papers laying in her hands. I walked over to my mom, inquisitive, she then told me to get my sister and meet her in the empty living room. As my sisters and I walked down what it seemed like long and never ending stairs, my mom was sitting on the plain couch by the kitchen. We all had interesting looks on our faces filled with curiosity, when we finally reached our mom she
critiques of the institution. We are able to gain knowledge of these very critiques by the first-hand accounts of Mary Prince in the narrative The History of Mary Prince and From the Darkness Cometh the Light by Lucy Delaney. In the narratives, Prince and Delany communicate to the reader a plethora of critiques to slavery. The most powerful critiques that Prince and Delaney agree upon are the destruction of family, the condition of the slaves, and the moral that it creates on the lives of the people most
white men were exceptive of black, in my opinion because of unsureness and the question about what the future would bring. The blacks were sure that they played a bigger part in the ending of the war then what the whites gave them credit for. Major R Delany said in a speech to over 500 men of his own kind,” I want to tell you one thing, did you know if it weren’t for the black man this war would have been brought to a close with success to the union and liberty too your race? (Litwack, The aftermat
essay" (Schwartz 722). Woolf powerfully recounts the tragic life of "Shakespeare's extraordinarily gifted sister" (47) as she struggles to duplicate her brother's successful artistic career. As Judith's tragedy progresses from rebellion and ridicule to despair and suicide, the reader is led to "mourn and protest the loss of this woman . . . whose passion finally turned against itself" (Delany 182). Judith symbolizes countless brilliant, talented women who have been unable to express their genius