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The official Delta Sigma Theta Hymn, written by Florence Cole Talbert and Alice Dunbar Nelson, was adopted in 1924. Its publication is The Delta. [5] Delta Sigma Theta's colors are crimson and cream, representing courage and purity. [6] [41] The sorority's symbol is Lady Fortitude. [41]
At Howard, Oberdorfer along with 22 fellow students, co-founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority on January 13, 1913. [4] She served as the first treasurer of the Alpha Chapter. She served as president of the Teacher's Club at Howard for one year and her achievements were noted in the NAACP's Crisis magazine edited by W.E.B. DuBois . [ 5 ]
Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. [6] She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, [7] who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.
Florence Cole was born on June 17, 1890, in Detroit, Michigan, to a family with deep roots in music and the performing arts.Her mother, Sadie Chandler Cole, was a mezzo-soprano and civil rights activist, who had gained considerable recognition as a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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 ...
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.
Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance.
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.