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Delta Sigma Theta is an international historically Black sorority.It was founded at Howard University in 1913. The sorority 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.
In the fall of 1914, Delta Sigma Theta was established at Brooklyn College of Pharmacy as an outgrowth of the Mortar and Pestle club (local). There were six founders led by A. Bertram Lemon. The organization was started on December 11, 1915, and one year later was incorporated in New York State as Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. [2]
Delta Sigma Theta established Delta Towers in the northeast area of Washington, D.C. Delta Towers is an apartment building for elderly and disabled individuals. [68] Delta Towers was the first retirement center founded by any of the African-American sororities or fraternities in the United States. [ 69 ]
Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is an international historically Black fraternity. Founded on January 9, 1914, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Phi Beta Sigma has chartered chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek-letters. The fraternity's expansion started with its second (Beta) and third ...
Beta Phi Sigma: December 1, 1944 Dumas, Gould, Grady, Jefferson County, and Thornton: Arkansas: Active Beckley Alumnae Beta Chi Sigma: 1945 Fayette County and Raleigh County: West Virginia: Active [73] Beta Psi Sigma: Jackson (TN) Alumnae Beta Omega Sigma: April 25, 1945 Gibson, Hardeman County, Haywood County, and Madison County: Tennessee ...
Many of the first meetings of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. were held in her living room. She was dedicated and studious, and graduated from Howard in 1913 as valedictorian and class president. Upon graduating from Howard, Brown wed Frank Coleman, the co-founder of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. She played a crucial role in the development of ...
Theta Sigma: 1996 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth: Dartmouth, Massachusetts: Active Theta Tau: 1996–2018 Lebanon Valley College: Annville Township, Pennsylvania: Inactive Theta Upsilon: 1996 University of La Verne: La Verne, California: Active [bv] Theta Phi: 1996–2005 College of Staten Island: Staten Island, New York City, New York ...
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 ...