Papers, 1912-1983.

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Papers, 1912-1983.

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The Alexander Papers constitute a highly significant resource for the social and political history of the city of Philadelphia and, in particular, for the history of the city's black professional and political elite, black civic organizations, and institutions concerned with race relations and civil rights. In addition to the great mass of material pertaining to the Alexander's professional, civic, and governmental activities, their papers also include a somewhat smaller but still significant quantity of correspondence, financial records, and other family papers pertaining to the private sphere, including home and family, estate, social life, and international travel. Researchers interested in the black family or the social world of the black professional elite will find a rich field here for exploration. There are also a large number of photographs, slides, and reels of film. Supplementary to the Alexanders' own papers are papers of Sadie Alexander's sister, Elizabeth Mossell Anderson; and paper of Raymond Alexander's sister, Virginia Margaret Alexander. These papers are fragmentary. The collection also contains some papers of the Alexanders' daughter, Rae Pace Alexander Minter.

250 Cubic ft.

University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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University of Pennsylvania, Archives & Records Center

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Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974

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Raymond Pace Alexander (October 13, 1897 – November 24, 1974) was an American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. A native Philadelphian, he was born in 1897 into a large working class family. He graduated from Central High School in 1917; entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1917; graduated from the Wharton School in 1920 and from Harvard Law School in June 1923. He was admitted to...

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 ...

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...

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....

Anderson, Elizabeth Mossell, 1894-1975

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Elizabeth Mossell Anderson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1939. She served as Dean of Women at Virginia State College and later at Wilberforce University (Central State College), Ohio. Upon her retirement in 1964, she came to live with the her sister, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander in Philadelphia and resided with Sadie and her husband Raymond until her death in 1975. ...

National Bar Association

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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....

Alexander family.

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Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898-1989) were pioneers among African Americans in the legal profession and leaders in public affairs, politics, and government throughout the middle half of the twentieth century. Raymond Pace Alexander, lawyer, judge, civil rights leader, and civic leader, was born in Philadelphia into a large working class family. His mother died shortly after the birth of his youngest sibling, and as a result Ray...