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Apr 18, 1999 · Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years: Directed by Lynne Littman. With Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Amy Madigan, Lisa Arrindell. Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American made-for-television drama film directed by Lynne Littman. The film is an adaptation of the 1993 biography Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years written by Sarah Louise Delany (nicknamed "Sadie"), Annie Elizabeth Delany , and journalist Amy Hill Hearth .
Spanning from their childhood in North Carolina at the end of the 19th century to the twilight of their lives in New York more than a century later, "Having Our Say" follows the...
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1993 New York Times bestselling book that was compiled by Amy Hill Hearth and contains the oral history of Sarah "Sadie" L. Delany and A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, two civil rights pioneers who were born in the late 19th century to a former slave.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years. Two sisters, both over 100 years old, recall their lives and how they overcame the racist conventions of their youth, and how their family handled the times with dignity and wisdom. 404 IMDb 7.6 1 h 33 min 1999. X-Ray 18+.
Apr 18, 1999 · Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who was born a slave, and a woman with an inter-racial background.
When a reporter (Madigan) comes to interview the two ladies, Sadie and Bessie talk about how they overcame the racist Jim Crow laws, and how their parents handled the turbulent times with dignity and wisdom.
