Sarah (Sadie) and Elizabeth (Bessie) were born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Henry Beard Delany and Nanny James Logan. They were the oldest girls out of ten children. The Delanys grew up on the campus of Saint Augustine’s School which was founded by the Episcopal Church. The environment at St. Augustine’s sheltered the Delany children from racial discrimination at an early age. While growing up the girls took on a motherly role in helping to raise the younger children. As a result of living on campus the Delany children received the finest education that blacks were capable of having at the time.

After graduating from Saint Augustine’s in 1910 Sadie became Jeanes Supervisor which involved visiting schools in Wake County North Carolina in order to save enough money to continu

When Sadie encountered discrimination she would play dumb to alleviate herself from the situation. Sadie demonstrated this in the incident where she applied for a job at a public high school in New York. When she had the appointment for her interview she skipped it and sent a letter pretending there was some sort of mix-up. She knew if she showed up for the appointment they would not have hired her because she was colored (170). “It was risky, but I knew what a bureaucracy it was, and that in bureaucracy it’s easier to keep people out than to push them down” (170). Sadie was very clever and was able to bypass racism in situations like the one above.

Sadie and Bessie differed in how they handled situations. I agree with Sadie’s passive approach in dealing with discrimination. She was capable of laughing things off and walking away to keep herself out of trouble, unlike her sister Bessie who would never back down and did what ever it took to stand up for her rights. I understand why Bessie would want to stand up for herself but I do not agree with her approach to handling the various situations. The result of Bessie’s aggressive nature she almost got herself lynched and she is lucky to still be alive. Sadie and Bessie’s conflicting personalities thr

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