The Paul Robeson House and Museum is going all out to celebrate the the internationally acclaimed singer, actor, athlete, lawyer and scholar's 125th birthday on April 9.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: The first of many firsts
Although she descended from two distinguished Black families, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander still encountered racism, sexism, hatred, and bigotry to get her Penn education. In a 1977 interview with oral historian Walter M. Phillips, she recalled her first year as an undergraduate in the School of Education: “Not one woman spoke to me in class or when I passed [them] on the walks to College Hall or the library. Can you imagine looking for classrooms and asking persons [along] the way, only to find the same unresponsive person you asked for directions seated in the classroom, which you entered late because you could not find your way?”