Sarah Louise Delany

Biography

Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1993), by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools.

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