William Adger, James Brister, and Nathan Francis Mossell in 1879 were the first African Americans to enroll at Penn. Adger was the first African American to graduate the College at Penn (1883), and when Brister graduated the School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental) (class of 1881), he was the first African American to earn a degree at Penn. Mossell was first African American to graduate from Penn Med (1882) (and had a niece, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States and first from Penn in 1921, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1927, and the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania)