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  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 o...

       The Other Heroes is a short series I'll be writing for the rest of February. It'll be about important black figures that have made contributions to society. Last February, I challenged myself to explore less famous black writers from the past and this February I'm committing to learning about important black people that aren't as mainstream. The first person to kickstart my series is Dr. Charles R. Drew. Dr. Charles R. Drew was a physician. He was from DC and grew up playing sports. After graduating high school, he attended Amherst University with an athletic scholarship. After graduating college, he worked as a college biology professor for a while at Morgan State University in Baltimore (formerly Morgan College) before going to a medical school called McGill in Montreal, Canada. There he earned two degrees, Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery. During his residency he was able to learn about blood transfusions alongside Dr. John Beattie. It was around th...