Sarah Louise Delany | |
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| Born | September 19, 1889 |
| Died | January 25, 1999 (aged 109) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Sadie Delany |
| Alma mater | St. Augustine's College Pratt Institute, A.A. Columbia University, B.A., M.A. |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, author, activist |
| Family | Samuel R. Delany (nephew) |
Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer. She was the subject, along with her younger sister Bessie, of the oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African American to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools. With the publication of the book about the sisters, she became famous at the age of 103.