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,
- ISBN10 156836010X
- ISBN13 9781568360102
- Publish Date 1 November 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Kodansha America, Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 212
- Language English