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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 18 april 1999 with Ruby Dee
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
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Add to a movie listHaving Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years is a 1999 American television film directed by Lynne Littman. The film is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years written by Sarah L. Delany, A. Elizabeth Delany, and journalist Amy Hill Hearth. The telefilm adaptation was written by Emily Mann, who also adapted the book to the Broadway stage (1995). The film first aired on CBS on April 18, 1999, just three months after Sadie died.
The daughters of a former slave who became the first Black person elected Bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States, the sisters were Civil Rights pioneers but were unknown until journalist Amy Hill Hearth interviewed them for a feature story in The New York Times in 1991. The sisters were then 100 and 102 years old.
Sadie, the older of the sisters, was the first Black person permitted to teach Domestic Science at the high school level in the New York City public schools. Bessie was the second black woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York State. The biopic deals with the trials and tribulations they faced during a century of life. The sisters share their stories with Ms. Hearth, the journalist (and later, the co-author of their book). Pivotal scenes are re-enacted through flashbacks.
Actors
Ruby Dee
(Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany)
Diahann Carroll
(Sadie Delany)
Amy Madigan
(Amy Hill Hearth)
Audra McDonald
(Bessie in her 20s)
Mykelti Williamson
(Papa Delany)
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