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The sculpture was unveiled on April 28, 1979, at 3:15pm by members of Delta Sigma Theta, to honor the founders of the service sorority. The sculpture is described as symbolizing "the attributes of strength, courage, hope, wisdom, beauty and femininity as depicted by the 22 founders of Delta Sigma Theta". [2]
In 1966, Delta Teen Lift was established and the Delta Sigma Theta Executive Board was received in the White House by President Lyndon B. Johnson to discuss community issues and concerns in 1967. In 1968, the Unwed Mothers program was established, and in 1970 Delta sponsored the East African International Women's Seminar in Nairobi , Kenya .
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 ...
In 1957, she was honored as Mother of the Year by the Baltimore alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. [ 11 ] Murphy was a member of the board of directors of the Baltimore YWCA , president of the St. James Episcopal Church Women's Auxiliary, a member of the wives' club of Alpha Phi Alpha (her husband's fraternity), and active at Morgan State ...
Delta Sigma Theta founders, 1913, at Howard University. Myra Davis Hemmings at the far left, back row. At Howard University in Washington, D.C. , Davis was a part of the group of seven who joined the Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1912; she served as its president.
Outside of the classroom, Noble served on many boards and commissions. From 1958 to 1963 Noble was the national president of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, a public service organization she joined while an undergraduate at Howard University. [6] Noble later served Delta as chair of its Arts and Letters, and Rituals and Ceremonies Commissions. [4]
In 1963, White led a Delta Sigma Theta contingent in the march on Washington with several other civil rights groups. In 1966, she was honored by the Cleveland chapter of the League of Women Voters, for her participation in the 1913 inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and her work on a committee headed by Carrie Chatman Catt. [9]
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