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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.
Delta Delta Sigma: May 1950 Tuscaloosa County: Alabama: Active [100] Little Rock Alumnae Delta Epsilon Sigma: April 1950 Greater Little Rock and Little Rock: Arkansas: Active [101] [ap] Delta Zeta Sigma: Delta Eta Sigma: Queens Alumnae Delta Theta Sigma: June 4, 1951 Queens: New York: Active [102] [aq] Hampton Alumnae Delta Iota Sigma: October ...
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 .
Name Original chapter Notability References Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, J.D., Ph.D. Gamma: 1919–1923. Mossell Alexander was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States, the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, one of the first Black women to receive a Phi Beta Kappa Key in the state of Pennsylvania, and the first ...
Delta Sigma Theta is an international organization of college-educated women. Delta Sigma Theta held its first national convention in 1919 in Washington, D.C. The national body of Delta Sigma Theta previously met annually, but due to several factors, the main of which is the establishment of regions and regional leadership, the National body currently meets at wikt:biennial conventions, and ...
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.
Washington State University: Pullman, Washington: Active [o] Alpha Alpha: April 23, 1921 – 1993; 1999 Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Active [p] Alpha Beta: April 8, 1922: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Champaign, Illinois: Active [q] Alpha Gamma: April 20, 1922 – 1998 Illinois Institute of Technology: Chicago ...
Delta Gamma: September 16, 1911 Vanderbilt University: Nashville: Tennessee: Active [w] Theta Epsilon: September 30, 1911 Southwestern University: Georgetown: Texas: Active [x] Theta Theta: February 23, 1912 University of Texas at Austin: Austin: Texas: Active [y] Delta Delta: March 16, 1912 – January 1, 1915 College of Wooster: Wooster: Ohio ...