Sadie Tanner Mossell ALEXANDER
1898-1989
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Publications:
Mossell, Sadie Tanner. 1921. “The Standard of Living Among One Hundred Negro Migrant Families in Philadelphia.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 98 (1): 173–218. https://doi.org/10.1177/000271622109800127
Archives:
“Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Papers.” n.d. University Archives and Records Center. Accessed January 28, 2025. https://archives.upenn.edu/collections/finding-aid/upt50a374s/
Secondary literature:
Banks, Nina. 2008. “The Black Worker, Economic Justice and the Speeches of Sadie T.M. Alexander.” Review of Social Economy 66 (2): 139–61.
———. 2022. “Sadie T. M. Alexander: Black Women and a ‘Taste of Freedom in the Economic World.’” Journal of Economic Perspectives 36 (4): 205–20. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.4.205
Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T.M. Alexander. 2021. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Kuehn, Daniel. 2022. “Nina Banks, Ed., Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander (London: Yale University Press, 2021), Pp. 320, $30 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780300246704.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 44 (2): 307–11. https://doi.org/10.1017/S105383722100047X
Leith, Lawrence H. 2023. “Who Was Sadie T. M. Alexander?” Monthly Labor Review, February, 1–2.
Mack, Kenneth W. 2002. “A Social History of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander and the Incorporation of Black Women into the American Legal Profession, 1925-60.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=317339
Malveaux, Julianne. 1991. “Missed Opportunity: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander and the Economics Profession.” The American Economic Review 81 (2): 307–10.
Nier, Charles Lewis III. 1998. “Sweet Are the Uses of Adversity: The Civil Rights Activism of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.” Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 8:59.
The Economist. n.d. “The Alexander Technique—Rediscovering a Lost Heroine of Economics.” Accessed February 6, 2025. https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/12/29/the-alexander-technique-rediscovering-a-lost-heroine-of-economics.
“Sadie T. M. Alexander.” 2025. Wikipedia. February 6, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sadie_T._M._Alexander&oldid=1274199659