Sarah Louise Delany, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sarah Louise Delany

African-American writer and activist

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1889

Place of Birth: Campbell County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 25-Jan-1999

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Sarah Louise Delany

  • Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.
  • Sadie was the first African-American permitted to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.

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