Virginia Margaret Alexander Papers
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Alexander-Minter, Rae, 1937-
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Dr. Rae Alexander-Minter is the daughter of Sadie and Raymond Alexander. She married Archie C. Epps; after her divorce with Epps, in 1971 Rae Pace Alexander married Thomas Minter, and they had two sons together....
Brown, Mary Elizabeth Alexander, 1934-
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Mary Elizabeth Alexander Brown is the daughter of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and Raymond Pace Alexander....
Alexander, Virginia Margaret, 1900-1949
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Virginia Margaret Alexander was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1899 to Hilliard Alexander and Virginia Pace, who were both born into slavery in the US. She had four siblings, including the prominent attorney Raymond Pace Alexander. She became close friends with Sadie Mossell during their undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania, and it was through Virginia that Sadie and Raymond met. After college, Virginia Alexander attended the Medical College of Pennsylvania an...
Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989) was an American lawyer who 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. In 1946 she ...
