Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, was a pioneering Black professional and civil rights activist of the early-to-mid-Twentieth Century. Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921). A few years later, she was first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1927), becoming the first Black woman to practice law in Pennsylvania. She was also the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923.