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