Dr. A Elizabeth Delany (1891-1995) and her sister Sarah were born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the campus of St. Augustine's College. Their father, born into slavery and freed by the Emancipation, was an administrator at the college and America's first elected Black Episcopal bishop. Elizabeth received her degree in dentistry from Columbia University and was the second Black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York City.
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Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side b... SEE MORE