Ethnic Studies
"We were good citizens, good Americans! We loved our country even though it didn't love us back" (Delany/Hearth 1993, 87). What a powerful thing to say. But it clearly paints a picture of what Sadie and Bessie went through in their lives. From when they were toddlers to high school to college and later in their careers, the Delany sisters definitely faced obst
Now Mama and Papa knew these laws were coming, of course, but they didn't prepare us. Even though Sadie and Bessie were not born into slavery they faced other forms of racism and discrimination. These were legitimate laws that segregated white and colored people. ) Whites and colored people had separate drinking fountains, separate bathrooms, different dining areas and different seating on modes of public transportation ( ie. She preferred to be called colored rather than black. They did not want to fill us with hatred. (I chose the phrase colored people because that is what Bessie liked to be referred to as. She said that she wasn't black and that she was brown. A perfect example was the Jim Crow laws. "So, this Jim Crow mess was started to keep the races apart, and keep the Negroes down. I guess our parents could not find the words to explain it. acles and overcame these obstacles to become two extremely strong and courageous women. Some might think that being born post civil war and reconstruction was a fairly easy thing to do.
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