Sarah Louise Delany
African-American educator and civil rights activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American permitted 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 age of 103.
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Sarah Louise Delany | |
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Born | (1889-09-19)September 19, 1889 |
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) |
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