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Sadie T. M. Alexander, (right) and her sister, Elizabeth Mossell Anderson, circa 1900.
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Sadie T. M. Alexander, (right) and her sister, Elizabeth Mossell Anderson, studio portrait photograph, as small children, c. 1900.

Credit: Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Archives, 20020911003

Born in 1898, Sadie Mossell was still an infant when her father left the family. As a child, Sadie and her sister split their time between her aunt and uncle’s home on Howard University’s campus in Washington D.C. and her grandparent’s house in Philadelphia.

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