Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

by Emily Mann
Directed by Nancy Eppert

Produced by the Independence Ministerial Alliance

Adapted from the book HAVING OUR SAY by Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth, based on the lives of Sadie and Bessie Delany

CAST:

Sadie Delany..........Belinda Baker
Bessie Delany..........Gigi Wolf.

PERFORMANCE DATES:

Jan. 19,20,21,27,28,2006 @ 8 p.m. & January 29, 2006 @ 2 p.m.

The Story:

"HAVING OUR SAY" opens as 103-year-old Sadie Delany and 101-year-old Bessie Delany welcome us into their Mount Vernon, New York, home. As they prepare a celebratory dinner in remembrance of their father's birthday, they take us on a remarkable journey through the last hundred years of our nation's history, recounting a fascinating series of events and anecdotes drawn from their rich family history and careers as pioneering African-American professionals. Their story is not simply African-American history or women's history. It is our history, told through the eyes of two unforgettable women as they look not only into the past, but also ahead into the twenty-first
century.

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