SADIE TANNER ALEXANDER

(Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander)


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The framework of a democratic army has been established by President Truman’s Executive Order.
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His statement was on the issuance of Executive Order 9981 which outlawed military segregation and granted equal treatment and opportunity to all service members regardless of their race:

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Your creation of this Committee is, in my opinion, the greatest venture in the protection of civil liberty officially undertaken by the government since reconstruction.
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Alexander was writing the President to accept her nomination to the Committee on Civil Rights.

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[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.
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Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
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I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
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Sadie Tanner Alexander
  • Born: January 2, 1898
  • Died: November 1, 1989
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  • Profession: Lawyer; First National President Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Civil Rights Activist
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. 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, following in her father's footsteps. She was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923.