Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, born in Philadelphia on January 2, 1898, emerged from a rich legacy. Her grandfather, Benjamin Tucker Tanner, was bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, editor of the Christian Recorder & editor of the AME Church Review. Her aunt, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, was the first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in AL & established Tuskegee Institute’s Nurses’ School & Hospital.

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Sadie Alexander’s uncle was Lewis Baxter Moore, Dean of Howard University. Her father, Aaron Albert Mossell, was the first Black-American to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1888. Her uncle, Nathan Francis Mossell, was the first African-American physician to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and co-founded the Frederick Douglass Hospital in 1895 (now Mercy-Douglass Hospital).

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