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Sarah Delany

(Sadie)
Age: 109

co-author of the bestselling memoir Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, which she wrote with sister Bessie (who died at age 106 in 1995) to document their experiences growing up as black Americans before the civil rights movement.

Died: Mount Vernon, N.Y., January 25, 1999

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