The Other Heroes: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

 

Today’s Other Heroes post will feature Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. Sadie Turner Mossell has an amazing backstory. She’s apart of a long line of successful family members. She was born in Philadelphia in the year 1898. One of her grandfathers was a minister and she had an aunt that was a social worker and physician that helped create a nursing school and hospital at Tuskegee Institute (Alabama). She also has a famous uncle that was a painter. Her father was a lawyer (the first African American) to graduate from Penn’s Law School. Besides, having well established family members, Sadie also excelled in her academic career. After graduating high school in Washington (where she moved with her aunt and uncle) she went on to college back in Philadelphia, attending the University of Pennsylvania. Afterwards, she attended Penn for economics and got her PhD. It was hard for her to find a good job in Philadelphia so she moved again but to Durham, North Carolina. She worked for a black owned life insurance company (Liberty Mutual) Once working for two years, she went back up north to get married to her husband, who was opening his own law firm. After going to law school at Pennsylvania University, she was the first black woman to get her law degree there and she went on to work with her husband. She put in years of work in politics and practicing law. At one point she was given a chair on the Board of Aging by President Jimmy Carter. It’s amazing how many things she accomplished during her life, and we could all be inspired to follow our goals all the way through as well. 

Source:

https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/sadie-tanner-mossell-alexander

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