BBB #005: Philadelphia’s First Black ”Power Couple” - Raymond Pace & Sadie T.M. Alexander
Raymond Pace Alexander was born in Philadelphia to former enslaved people, but graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and became the go-to civil rights lawyer in Philadelphia. In 1959, he became the first black judge to sit on the Court of Common Pleas.
His wife Sadie Tanner Mossell came from a pioneering middle-class family and was the first Black women to earn an economics degree in the US, but then also became a lawyer. Together they spent their lives battling racism in Philadelphia.
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