"Having Our Say" by the Delaney Sisters

The social, cultural and political history of America as it affects the life course of American citizens became very real to us as the Delaney sisters, Sadie and Bessie, recounted their life course spanning a century of living in their book "Having Our Say." The Delaney sisters lives covered the period of their child hood in Raleigh, North Carolina, after the surrender of their adults lives in Harlem, New York City during the roaring twenties. To a quiet retirement in suburban, New York City, as self-styled "maiden ladies." At the ages of 102 and 104, these ladies have lived long enough to…