Sadie T.M. Alexander, First Black Woman In The US To Receive A PhD, To Be Honored With Statue In Philadelphia
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 19, 2025
February 19, 2025
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a woman of many firsts, including being 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. A statue in Philadelphia will soon commemorate her life.
An academic, economist and an attorney, Alexander was also a wife and a mother.
"She was unassuming, self-effacing," said Dr. Rae Pace Alexander-Minter. "My mother was the first feminist that I ever knew."
Dr. Rae Pace . . .
