coolchicksfromhistory: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898 – 1989) achieved a lot of firsts in her life. She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the first African American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. “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.”  Fierce woman in a frilly dress.

coolchicksfromhistory:

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (1898 – 1989) achieved a lot of firsts in her life.

She was the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the first African American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar, and was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

“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.” 

Fierce woman in a frilly dress.

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