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Sadie Delany
Sarah Louise better known as Sadie Delany came into this world on september 19,1889 to Henry Delany and Nanny Logan.Sadie was known as a sweet, loving, caring young woman and remains that way today. -
Sadie's Career
Sadie who became a teacher in 1916 but graduated from college, had the hardest time ever following her dreams because back then the chances of any african amercians actually making it in life was slim 95% of the time.but sadie she was determined and did not stop until she got what she wanted. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was created February 4, 1913 And Resided On October 24,2005.She was a young african amercian who did not except law rules and sat in the front of the bus with the whites to show the world that everyone can make a change if you try. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
This young bright african american man was born on Jan.15,1929 and took his last breath on April 4,1968. He was a man who believed and worked for his freedom of speech and wanted black and whites together instead of separate.and didn't stop until he was killed. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till who was born on july 25,1941 born in chicago, Illinois, Who eventually move to Mississippi. Where he was murdered and mistreated for whistling at a white women. He was beaten baddly and whipped and threw into a river. He died at the age 14 and the men who did it had no regard or respect for human life. -
Sisters
Sadie and bessie was two sisters who stuck together more than twins. Who was tighter then ice and water. Where you seen one there was the other. Both had great careers and future plans and both made it to aless 100 years old.Both bessie an sadie wrote a book Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.Great Book Sold Out. -
A Lesson Before Dying
This book was written and published in Bayonne, Louisiana in the late 1940s.It tells the story of two African American men struggling to attain their manhood in a deeply prejudiced society. Jefferson, a young man with little formal education, is an innocent bystander at a deadly shootout between a white store owner and two black robbers. He is later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. and during his trail he lawyer tends to call him a "hog".it was published feb 1,1995 -
The Death Of A Legend
After Publishing her last book ever which was called The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom (Hardcover) Sadie delany died at home in her sleep at 109 years old. Which she left behind legacy, tradition, faith and hope and will always be remember nomatter what the fact of the matter is. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965.It was acts that declared "separate But Equal".Some of these laws involved the grandfather clause, Black Codes, Poll Taxes and much more.
