"Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African American to get a Ph.D.
in economics, in 1921, when she completed her dissertation on the "Standard of
Living Among One Hundred Negro Families in Philadelphia, 1916-1918" at the ...
She built a distinguished practice as an attorney, served on the boards of several
civil rights and civic liberties ... Raymond Pace Alexander, (the first African
American to serve on the Philadel ..."