Having Our Say

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Across
  1. 3. The sisters filed a ______________ to keep their cottage.
  2. 7. Both sisters chose careers over this
  3. 8. Bessie was this in her class graduation from dental school.
  4. 10. Bessie uses the word _______________ instead of Black or African.
  5. 11. Bessie's "daughter"
  6. 13. What Sadie taught
  7. 16. women Bottom of the "pecking order."
  8. 18. Caused Bessie's dental office to close
  9. 19. In Brunswick, GA, Bessie was almost _____________(ed).
  10. 20. Parties that Sadie and Bessie would have
  11. 22. Sadie saved her life1.
  12. 25. Neither Sadie nor Bessie ever worked for white people in their ______________.
Down
  1. 1. Sadie, "We knew we were already second-class citizens, but those _____ _____ _____(s) set it in stone."
  2. 2. Bessie was the only sister to have an experience with this racist group.
  3. 4. The Delanys planted a ______________ garden.
  4. 5. What Mama and Sadie did a lot of after Papa died
  5. 6. When the Delany siblings were living together in a small apartment in Harlem, what did their neighbors think they were up to?
  6. 9. New York land mark that didn't mean a whole lot to the Delany's
  7. 12. Sadie, “I was a woman in age, but a child in __________.”
  8. 14. Who Sadie was scared of most of her life.
  9. 15. Mr. Milliam always told Bessie to look people in the __________.
  10. 17. Bessie had a hard time adapting to Sadie's new role as the ____________ of the family.
  11. 21. Supervisor at a factory in NY wanted Bessie to go along with being ________
  12. 23. Lack of _______ made it difficult for Sadie to keep up with the candy business.
  13. 24. Sadie liked to play ______ to handle white people.