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Sadie's Birth
Sarah Louise Delany was born on September 19, 1889 in Lynch Station, Virginia. She was born to Henry and Nanny Delany. She was one of ten children. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws enslaved black people from doing what they wanted to do. It segregated the black population from the rest of society, "separate but equal." They were laws that prohibited blacks from participating as members of the community. -
Sadie's college years
1916 Delany moved to New York City where she began teaching for the New York City's public schools. Sadie Delany enrolled in Teachers College in 1918 after graduating from Pratt Institute, then a two-year college. -
A lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying is a fictional story about a boy named Jefferson who was wrongly accused of roberry and murder. Jesfferson was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. There were many examples of black people in the South being accused for committing crimes they did not do. -
The sotry of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a young, black, teen from Chicago, IL who went to visit his uncle in Money, Mississippi one summer. While he was there, he was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman. Till had been beaten and his eye had been gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied to his body with barbed wire. -
Rosa Parks
Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. She was arrested for not giving up her seat. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
I Have a Dream
King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his %u201CI Have a Dream%u201D speech. -
Having Our Say
Sadie Delany found fame in 1993, after a joint oral history of her life and that of her sister Bessie became the best-selling book Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. Sadie wrote a second book; On my Own at 107- Life without Bessie. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the first African American president to be elected. Sadie would be very proud of this event in our history. -
Sadie's Death
Sadie died on January 25th, 1999 in Mount Vernon, New York. She was 109 years old. She outlived her sister by five years.
