March’s Booklist @ SCC Library

If you liked “Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years” by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany try…..

The Delany Sisters’ Book of Everyday Wisdom

Sarah Delany

E185.96 .D368 1994

 Peacework: Oral Histories of Women Peace Activists

Judith Adams

JX1965. A33 1990

 Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present

Jacqueline Jones

HD6057.5 .U5 J66 1986

 Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

HQ1438.A13 F69 1988

 In the Company of Educated Women:  a History of Women and Higher Education in America

Barbara Solomon

LC1752.S65 1985

 The Day the Women got the Vote: a Photo History of the Women’s Rights Movement

George Sullivan

HQ1236.5 .U6 S85 1994

 Down from the Mountaintop: Black Women’s Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989

Melissa Walker

PS374.N4 W35 1991

 Half Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past

Catherine Clinton

HQ1438. S63 H35 1994

 The Southern Lady: from Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930

Anne Scott

HQ1418. S38 1995

 Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880)

Carla Peterson

PS153.N5 P443 1995

 African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965

Ann Gordon

JK1924. A47 1997

March 17th – Delany Sisters

Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years

By Sarah and Elizabeth Delany

Below are the discussion questions from the SCC Book Corner meeting on March 17^th 2008.

1.       What are your views about the experiences of the Delany sisters concerning prejudice and discrimination?

2.       How can we follow the Delany’s example of positive optimism as we face the future?

3.       What things can we do to embrace differences and celebrate our common human qualities?

4.       What insights have you learned from the Delany sisters that you may not learn from a textbook or encyclopedia? How has this knowledge added to or changed your ideas about African Americans?

5.       Discuss the role of the elderly in society today. Describe how you feel about growing older.

  Quotes from the Authors: 

“I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life, child. Life is short. It’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sadie Delany (aka Sarah Delany)

“Education!  Education, child. Education always makes the difference!” – Bessie Delany (aka Elizabeth Delany)