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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 13, 1913, by 22 undergraduate black women.
Founders Osceola Macarthy Adams Jimmie Bugg Middleton Marguerite Young Alexander Pauline Oberdorfer Minor Winona Cargile Alexander Vashti Turley Murphy Ethel Cuff Black Naomi Sewell Richardson Bertha Pitts Campbell Mamie Reddy Rose Zephyr Chisom Carter Eliza Pearl Shippen Edna Brown Coleman Florence Letcher Toms Jessie McGuire Dent Ethel Carr Watson Fredericka Chase Dodd Wertie Blackwell Weaver Myra Davis Hemmings Madree Penn White Olive C. Jones Edith Motte Young Our founders were interested in establishing an organization committed to the promotion of high cultural, intellectual, and moral standards among its members for its own benefits as well as for that of the larger society in which it existed. Our founders were interested in establishing an organization committed to the promotion of high cultural, intellectual, and moral standards among its members for its own benefits as well as for that of the larger society in which it existed. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is dedicated to the ideals of Sisterhood, Scholarship and Public Service. In accordance with these ideals, Delta has established a long and glorious history of educational, cultural, political, and social service in the public's interest. To further its public service goals, Delta Sigma Theta operates under Five Point Program Thrust:
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. As a public service organization Delta Sigma Theta has traditionally addressed the issues of the time.
In 1913, our founders marched among thousands of others in the women's suffrage march. In 1980 Soror Bertha Pitts Campbell, one of our distinguished founders, and 17th National President, Mona Humphries Bailey, led 8,000 Deltas in a reenactment of that historic march in Washington, D.C. On March 26,1995 Deltas also participated in a march commemorating the 75th anniversary of the women's suffrage march of 1913.
Today, our glorious Sisterhood has a membership of over 190,000 predominately African-American, college-educated women. The Sorority currently has 900-plus chapters located in the United States, Japan, Germany, Bermuda, Haiti, Liberia, the Bahamas, the Republic of Korea and the Virgin Islands. National Presidents Past and Present 1st Sadie T. M. Alexander, Ph. D. 1919-1923 2nd Dorothy Pelham Beckley 1923-1926 3rd Ethel LaMay Calimese 1926-1929 4th Anna Johnson Julian 1929-1931 5th Gladys Byram Shepperd 1931-1933 6th Jeannette Triplett Jones 1933-1935 7th Vivian Osborne Marsh 1935-1939 8th Elsie Austin 1939-1944 9th Mae Wright Downs Peck Williams 1944-1947 10th Dorothy I. Height 1947-1956 11th Dorothy P. Harrison 1956-1958 12th Jeanne L. Noble 1958-1963 13th Geraldine P. Woods 1963-1967 14th Frankie M. Freeman, Esq. 1967-1971 15th Lillian Pierce Benbow 1971-1975 16th Thelma Thomas Daley 1975-1979 17th Mona Humphries Bailey 1979-1983 18th Hortense Golden Canady 1983-1988 19th Dr. Yvonne Kennedy 1988-1992 20th Bertha M. Roddey, Ph. D. 1992-1996 21st Marchia L. Fudge, Esq. 1996-2000 22nd Gwendolyn E. Boyd 2000-Present For an in depth history of Delta Sigma Theta you may read:
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