During her extraordinarily productive life, Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander accomplished a number of incomparable breakthroughs: the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the U.S.;
the first Black woman enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law; the first Black woman to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta, as well as its first president, among other pioneering advances. This was just an iota of information about her formidable past that was shared with an audience on Thursday evening at the New School for Social Research by Dr.
She began with a brief outline of Dr. Alexander’s odyssey, noting that she was born Jan. 2, 1898, in Philadelphia and was the product and a member of a distinguished family, including her husband Judge Raymond Pace Alexander. Her grandfather was Bishop Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a leader in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, her uncle was the famous painter Henry O. Tanner, and another uncle, Nathan F.
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