Student Sample 3

By Ms. Setchell

  • Bessie Delany's Birth

    Bessie Delany's Birth
    Bessie Delany was born to the first African American bishop Henry Delany and Nanny Logan in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  • Bessie goes to School of Dental and Oral Surgery.

    Bessie goes to School of Dental and Oral Surgery.
    Entering a class of the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery. She earned her DDS degree in 1923, and was soon the second black woman dentist licensed in the State of New York.

  • Emmett Till is Murdered

    Emmett Till is Murdered
    At the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, a small town in the state's Delta region. The murder of Emmett Till was noted as one of the leading events that motivated the nascent American Civil Rights Movement

  • Bessie Delany's Death

    Bessie Delany's Death
    Bessie Delany died in Mount Vernon, New York at the age of 104. Leaving her sister Sadie Delany at the age of 106

  • Bessie and Sadie Delany Having Our Say

    Bessie and Sadie Delany Having Our Say
    Bessie, age 101, and her sister Sadie, age 103, tell the life story. They also tell what its like to grow up of Black middle class Americans