Feb 1 – Sadie Tanner Alexander

February 1, 2021

Today in Black History Sadie Tanner Alexander 1898-1989 The first black woman student to graduate with a law degree from Penn Law School, and the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania. The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School (“Penn Alexander”) in West Philly is named after her.

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