Sarah Louise Delany
Sarah Louise Delany Born (1889-09-19)September 19, 1889 Lynch's Station, Campbell County, Virginia, U.S. Died January 25, 1999(1999-01-25) (aged 109) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. Other names Sadie Delany Alma mater St. Augustine's College Pratt Institute, A.A. Columbia University, B.A., M.A. Occupation Educator, author, activist Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first Black person permitted to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.