Alexander family papers relating to Henry Ossawa Tanner
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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 family.
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Raymond Pace Alexander and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander were prominent Philadelphia lawyers. Sadie Alexander was Henry Tanner's niece; Raymond Alexander represented Tanner in his legal suit against the Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia. From the description of Alexander family papers relating to Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1912-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81991125 ...
Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, dedicated in 1793, was an outgrowth of the movement among African Americans to organize into separate congregations. In 1787 a group of African Americans in Philadelphia withdrew from the white dominated Methodist Church and under the leadership of Richard Allen built Bethel Church. In 1816, Bethel joined with 16 other congregations to form the African Methodist Episcopal Church with Allen as the first bishop. From the...
Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937
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African American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a college-educated teacher and minister, and Sarah Miller Tanner, a former slave. Benjamin Tanner was very active in the African Methodist Episcopal (A. M. E.) Church, eventually becoming a bishop, and the family often moved while Henry was a small child. They settled in Philadelphia, and as a teenager, Tanner spent his free time painting, drawing, and...
