Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
She was the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania and the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923.
In 1946 she was appointed to the President's Committee on Civil Rights, which was established by Harry Truman.
She was the first African-American woman appointed as Assistant City
Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia. She and her husband were both
active in civil rights
In 1952 she was appointed to the city's Commission on Human Relations, serving through 1968, and served as president of John F. Kennedy Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (1963).
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