Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American television movie directed by Lynne Littman. The teleplay by Emily Mann is adapted from her Tony Award-nominated 1995 play based on a memoir by Sadie and Bessie Delany written in collaboration with Amy Hill Hearth. It first aired on CBS on April 18, just three months after Sadie died.
The sisters, raised by a former slave who became the first African American Episcopal bishop, ...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American television movie directed by Lynne Littman. The teleplay by Emily Mann is adapted from her Tony Award-nominated 1995 play based on a memoir by Sadie and Bessie Delany written in collaboration with Amy Hill Hearth. It first aired on CBS on April 18, just three months after Sadie died.
The sisters, raised by a former slave who became the first African American Episcopal bishop, were Civil Rights pioneers. Sadie, the older of the two, was the first African American woman permitted to teach Domestic Science in the state of New York, while Bessie was the second black woman to be granted a dentistry license in the state. The biopic deals with the trials and tribulations they faced during a century of life.
Ron Wertheimer of the New York Times called the film "clearly a labor of love . . . an engrossing drama built on characters who are at once exceptional and accessible . . . Ms. Carroll and Ms. Dee embody the sisters in...
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