Title:	Raymond Pace Alexander
Authors:	David A., Canton
Keywords:	Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898–1974.
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	Mississippi
Description:	The most powerful recollection of what made Raymond Pace Alexander a leading civil rights attorney in Philadelphia came from his wife, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, who also became a successful lawyer. In 1965, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin published a twenty-page report titled “The Negro in Philadelphia,” chronicling the history of African Americans in that city. Sadie recounted in the report an incident that had occurred while she was an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. In December 1918, Sadie asked her classmate Raymond Pace Alexander to escort her and two friends visiting from Cornell University to the movie theater. Raymond and the other man purchased four tickets to the Schubert Theater in downtown Philadelphia. When the four students arrived at the theater, the young men presented their tickets to the theater’s manager, but he prohibited them from entering, saying that there had been a mistake and some other people had purchased their tickets for the same seats. Furious, “Alex began excitedly talking in Spanish,” and the other three “chimed in with French phrases.”
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9105
ISBN:	978-1-60473-425-6
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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