The winning design for a statue depicting Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander, a history-making lawyer and economist who lived in Mt. Airy and the Andorra section of Roxborough, is scheduled to be selected from among five finalists by the end of July.
A special committee that considered the results of a public survey rating the five designs will announce the winner. The statue will be erected outside of the Municipal Services Building in Center City.
Alexander was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the U.S., and the first Black woman to graduate from the University …
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The winning design for a statue depicting Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander, a history-making lawyer and economist who lived in Mt. Airy and the Andorra section of Roxborough, is scheduled to be selected from among five finalists by the end of July.
A special committee that considered the results of a public survey rating the five designs will announce the winner. The statue will be erected outside of the Municipal Services Building in Center City.
Alexander was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the U.S., and the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She also served on President Truman’s President’s Committee on Civil Rights and as the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Alexander worked as an assistant city solicitor in Philadelphia and practiced law with her husband, noted attorney Raymond Pace Alexander. She died in 1989 and is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwd.
