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This category is for biographical articles and images relating to the founders and incorporators of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. The organization was founded on the campus of Howard University in 1913.
Founder; active supporter of Delta from Lynchburg, Virginia. She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage. In 1936, she received her master's degree at Howard University. By 1938, after years of effort, she witnessed her Raleigh Alumnae chapter, Alpha Zeta Sigma, established in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two women at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Membership is open to any woman, regardless of religion, race, or nationality. Women may apply to join through undergraduate chapters at a college or university or through an alumnae chapter after earning a college degree.
Richardson was the last surviving founder of Delta Sigma Theta when she passed in 1993 at the age of 100, a centenarian. [8] A biography of her life was written by her sorority sisters in 1995 titled A Life of Quiet Dignity: Naomi Sewell Richardson. [9] The Naomi Sewell Richardson Park was built on the site of her original home in 2019. [9]
Delta Sigma Theta founders, 1913, at Howard University. Ethel Cuff: second from right, front row. She attended Howard University, graduating with a degree in education in 1915. [1] [5] At Howard, she was a member of the choir, the chair of the Howard chapter of the YWCA, and vice president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Winona Cargile Alexander (June 21, 1893 – October 16, 1984) was a founder of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Incorporated at Howard University on January 13, 1913. It was the second sorority founded by African-American women and was influential in women's building civic institutions and charities.
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.
Co-founder of Delta Sigma Theta, civil rights activist and organizer in Seattle Bertha Pitts Campbell (June 30, 1889 – April 2, 1990) was a civil rights activist and one of the 22 founding members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]