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Delta Sigma Phi (ΔΣΦ), commonly known as Delta Sig, is a fraternity established in 1899 at The City College of New York (CCNY). It was the first fraternity to be founded based on religious and ethnic acceptance.
The list of Delta Sigma Phi members includes notable people who are or were once a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Since 1899, Delta Sigma Phi has issued 238 charters in 41 states (United States of America), Washington, D.C., and three provinces in Canada.Currently, the fraternity has active chapters and new chapters in 32 states and Washington, D.C.
On January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was founded by twenty-two women at Howard University.Some of the founders were former members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority who wanted to change the sorority's name, color, symbols and direction.
Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University (NYU) in New York, New York and is currently headquartered in Oxford, Ohio. The Fraternity has 218 active collegiate chapters, 9 startup groups, 48 franchised alumni chapters, and over 300,000 initiated members.
In fact, working together as a united, positive community force, the eight-member group representing Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (founded Jan. 15, 1908), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc ...
Sigma Phi became the first "national" fraternity when it opened a satellite chapter at Hamilton College in 1831. A failed 1830 attempt by Kappa Alpha to expand to Hamilton sparked the founding of Alpha Delta Phi, the first Greek letter fraternity founded outside Union. [12]
The Founders of Delta Sigma Theta, in 1913. Vashti Turley Murphy: third from right, front row. Lula Vashti Turley was born in 1884, in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Hamilcar Turley and Ida H. Francis Turley. [1] Her father was a clerk in the Pension Bureau, and a church choirmaster. [2]