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Both other organizations have significant ties to Delta Sigma Theta. National Council of Negro Women, Inc. was founded by Delta member Mary McLeod Bethune, and headed by many Delta members including Delta 10th National President, Dorothy Irene Height for more than five decades, and currently by Delta member Ingrid Saunders Jones. [75]
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is an international organization of college-educated women. Originally established for women of color, Delta Sigma Theta now has a membership that includes women of all races. Delta Sigma Theta is the largest single organization historically founded for and by Black Women in the United States.
Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ), an international historically Black sorority, was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University.It has more than 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, Canada, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Liberia, Bermuda, Jamaica, The Bahamas, South Korea and Nigeria.
Below is a list of Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ) members, commonly referred to as Deltas. The sorority was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University [1] and was first incorporated in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 1913. [2]
Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ) is a historically African American sorority that was founded at Howard University in 1913. [1] Historically, the sorority had collegiate, alumnae, and mixed chapters, with the latter including both graduate or undergraduate members.
Sigma Tau Delta: ΣΤΔ: English Language and Literature December 12, 1922 [10] 1972: Sigma Theta Tau: ΣΘΤ: Nursing October 4, 1922: 1959: Tau Beta Pi: ΤΒΠ: Engineering June 15, 1885: December 30, 1925: Tau Sigma Delta: ΤΣΔ: Architecture and Allied Arts May 1913: February 28, 1948 [18] Theta Alpha Kappa: ΘΑΚ: Religious Studies ...
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.
Pelham was a founding member of the Washington, D.C. alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta in 1921. From 1923 to 1926 she was national president of the sorority. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] She spoke on a panel about "The Part of the Young College-Bred Negro in Race Betterment" at a national conference held at Howard University in 1924. [ 10 ]