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3 unusual facts about Raymond Pace Alexander


Raymond Pace Alexander

Many accounts of the black civil rights struggle in the United States focus on the large-scale events, urban rebellions and nationwide efforts that characterized the years after the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

That same year, he married his former Penn classmate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander – who in 1927 would become the first black woman to earn a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Alexander opened his own firm in his hometown of Philadelphia, where he not only became one of the most prominent attorneys, but also stood at the forefront of the city’s civil rights struggle.



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