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Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, has been a pillar of sisterhood, scholarship, service, and social action since its founding on January 13, 1913, by 22 collegiate women at Howard University.
At age 92, Campbell led 10,000 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the participation of some members of the organization in the suffrage march of 1913. Having long survived her husband and son, she spent her final years in a Seattle nursing home and died peacefully at ...
On January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was founded by twenty-two women at Howard University. [5] [6] Some of the founders were former members of Alpha Kappa Alpha who wanted to change the sorority's name, color, symbols and direction.
McGuire attended the segregated Central High School in Galveston, graduating in 1908, before attending the historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C. She was one of the co-founders of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, which was founded on January 13, 1913, and later became a charter member of the Gamma Chapter in Galveston.
Naomi Sewell Richardson (September 24, 1892 – August 5, 1993) [1] was an American educator and suffragist.She was a student co-founder of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the second sorority founded for and by African-American women.
Hemmings was elected as vice-president of the national Delta Sigma Theta in 1933 [14] as well as the organization's historian in 1948. [15] She was also a member of the NAACP, the National Council of Negro Women [16] and the Alpha Phi Literary Society. [17] Hemmings died on December 8, 1968, in San Antonio.