![]() The first Black person to teach domestic science in a New York City high school, Sarah Delany was a civil rights pioneeer, along with her sister, Bessie, the first Black women to have earned a degree in dentisty from Columbia University. ![]() Augustine's School, Raleigh, where her father served as Vice Principal, and her mother, as a teacher, before she moved to New York City to attend Pratt Institute and Teachers College, Columbia University, where she earned a Bachelors in 1920 and Masters in 1925. On September 19th, 1889 Sarah ("Sadie") Louise Delany, older sister to Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany (September 3rd, 1891) was born in Lynch's Station, Virginia, to the Reverend Henry Beard Delany, the first black person elected Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, and Nanny Logan Delany (1861–1956), an educator and adminsitrator. ![]()
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