Having Our Say

1. In Brunswick, GA, Bessie was almost _____________(ed).
3. Sadie, “I was a woman in age, but a child in __________.”
8. Both sisters chose careers over this
10. Who Sadie was scared of most of her life.
11. What Mama and Sadie did a lot of after Papa died
13. Caused Bessie's dental office to close
16. Parties that Sadie and Bessie would have
17. Bessie had a hard time adapting to Sadie's new role as the ____________ of the family.
18. Sadie liked to play ______ to handle white people.
20. Neither Sadie nor Bessie ever worked for white people in their ______________.
22. Bessie was the only sister to have an experience with this racist group.
23. When the Delany siblings were living together in a small apartment in Harlem, what did their neighbors think they were up to?

2. What Sadie taught
3. Mr. Milliam always told Bessie to look people in the __________.
4. New York land mark that didn't mean a whole lot to the Delany's
5. Lack of _______ made it difficult for Sadie to keep up with the candy business.
6. The Delanys planted a ______________ garden.
7. Bessie's "daughter"
9. Sadie, "We knew we were already second-class citizens, but those _____ _____ _____(s) set it in stone."
12. Bessie was this in her class graduation from dental school.
14. Supervisor at a factory in NY wanted Bessie to go along with being ________
15. Sadie saved her life1.
19. The sisters filed a ______________ to keep their cottage.
21. women Bottom of the "pecking order."