Monthly WEDNESDAYS @ 6:30pm ON ZOOM

July 15

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Year by Amy Hill Hearth, Anne Elizabeth Delany and Sarah Louise Delany

The book chronicles the story of the Delany sisters with wit and wisdom. It begins with an idyllic childhood in North Carolina. The sisters had a unique and privileged upbringing. They were raised on the campus of St. Augustine's School in Raleigh, North Carolina. Their father, the Rev. Henry B. Delany, was the Vice-Principal of the school. He was born into slavery, but eventually became the first African-American Episcopal Bishop elected in the United States. Their mother, Nanny Logan, was a teacher and an administrator. Her parents were a free African American woman and a white Virginia farmer.

The legislation of Jim Crow laws eventually prompted the Delany sisters' move to Harlem. Sadie arrived in New York in 1916, while Bessie relocated two years later...

The sisters were successful career women and civil rights pioneers in their own right. They survived encounters with racism and sexism in different ways, with the support of each other and their family. The sisters set their sights high, with both earning advanced college degrees at a time when this was very rare for women, especially women of color. Both were successful in their professions from the 1920s until retirement. 

The Judson Book Group is open to all.

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