Born 2 decades before women could vote, Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a fighter. She was the FIRST Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in America; the FIRST Black-American to receive a Ph.D. in Economics from UPenn; the FIRST Black woman to enroll & earn a law degree from UPenn; the FIRST Black woman admitted to PA bar; & the FIRST woman to hold national office in the National Bar Association.

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