A native of Philadelphia, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander earned five degrees at the University of Pennsylvania She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics; she completed ...

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a woman of many firsts ... Alexander graduated with a Bachelor of Science in education and continued at Penn, where she earned a PhD in economics in 1921.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in the United States, will be honored with ...

Five finalists have been selected to create and propose designs for a statue celebrating economist, lawyer and civil rights advocate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. The finalists are sculptor ...

The most powerful recollection of what made Raymond Pace Alexander a leading civil rights attorney in Philadelphia came from his wife, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, who also became a successful ...