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Jan.2.1898-Nov.1.1989 (Aged 91)

Cause of death: Pneumonia.

Parents: Aaron Albert Mossell the second (Father) & Mary Louisa Tanner (mother).

Education: Penn Carey Law (1927), University of Pennsylvania (1918), Dunbar High School.

Spouses: Raymond Pace (1923-1974).

Children: Mary Elizabeth Alexander Brown & a second child.

The first Black/African-American woman to earn a PhD in economics.

She served on the board of the National Urban League for 25 years.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter named her in 1979 to chair the decennial White House Conference on Aging, an appointment later withdrawn by Richard Schweiker, President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Mossell had attended high school in Washington, D.C. at the M Street School, now known as Dunbar High School, graduating in 1915. She was able to do so because she stayed with her uncle Dr. Lewis Baxter Moore and step aunt at their home on the campus of Howard University.

Mossell returned to Philadelphia to study at the School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1918. There, she faced numerous hardships, due to her race and gender, such as poor advising, false accusations of plagiarism, and other students stealing her intellectual property.

Jane Matilda Bolin was a American attorney & judge. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale law school, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the New York City Law Department.

September 5th,1939-January.13.2026 [aged 86].

Children: Raymond and Randy Colvin

Siblings: Velma Colvin, Delphine Covin

Colvin's books: "No Fear Here and I Do Not Fear" [2022] and "Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!" [2024].

Known for: Being arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus, Nine months before the similar Rosa Parks incident.

A 15-year-old student at the time, Claudette Colvin ignited the flames of the Montgomery Bus Boycott nine months before Rosa Parks’ arrest. In 1955, she refused to surrender her seat to a white man on a crowded bus, a defiant act that challenged Jim Crow laws at the time, according to History.

Colvin recalls “It [feeling] like Sojourner Truth was on one side pushing me down, and Harriet Tubman was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn’t get up.”