Delany, Bessie

Bessie Delany
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Bessie Delany

Name	Delany, Bessie Gender: F
Birthname	Delany, Annie Elizabeth
born on	3 September 1891 at 09:30 (= 09:30 AM )
Place	Raleigh NC, USA, 35n46, 78w38
Timezone	EST h5w (is standard time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B
Astrology data	10°46' 13°36 Asc. 25°53'

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Biography

American dentist, the second black woman ever licensed to practice dentistry in New York. She was one of ten kids who grew up in the turn of the century in North Carolina, the daughter of a dad who was born a slave and became the nation's first elected black Episcopal Bishop in 1928. All the kids became college educated professionals, a unique picture of family success for any day, let alone then.

Feisty and confrontational, she was known as "Queen Bess." She went to Columbia in 1919 as one of 11 women and the only black woman (along with six black men) in a class of 170. Exposed to racial slurs, she had an escape from the KKK and an occurrence of narrowly avoiding rape. An activist, she joined in protest marches.

Bessie lived most of her life with her sister Sadie in the house they bought together in Mount Vernon, NY. where she loved her garden. The sisters wrote their autobiography together, a wonderful story of early Americana, home-spun wisdom and the depth of simple values.

Bessie died peacefully in her sleep at 104 at home, 9/25/1995.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• sibling relationship with Delany, Sadie (born 19 September 1889)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 25 September 1995 (Age 104)
• Social : Begin a program of study 1919 (Columbia University, only black woman)

Source Notes

Autobiography "Having Our Say, the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" (written with Amy Hill Hearth, Kodansha International, 1993, NY)

Categories

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Having Our Say)

• Vocation : Medical : Dentist/ Dental Tech (Dentist)

• Family : Childhood : Family large (Ten kids)

• Family : Childhood : Family close (Supportive family making education tops)

• Family : Childhood : Family noted (Dad a Bishop)

• Family : Childhood : Family supportive

• Family : Relationship : Married late/never (Never)

• Family : Parenting : Kids none

• Notable : Book Collection : Profiles Of Women

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 104)

• Traits : Body : Race (Black, mixed race)

• Traits : Personality : Principled strongly (Noted for dignity and values)

• Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Second black woman dentist)

• Family : Childhood : Sibling circumstances (Close to siser for lifetime, lived together)