DAT TEST
Mission Statement - ✅✅ -Delta sigma theta sorority incorporated is an organization
of college educated women committed to the constructive development of its
members and to public service with a primary focus on the Black Community
The Sorority Pin - ✅✅ -The middle letter, the Sigma has 9 jewels that represent the
Nine Cardinal Virtues that are the foundation of Delta Sigma Theta
These virtues are: Compassion, Courtesy, Dedication, Fellowship, Fidelity, Honesty,
Justice, Purity, and Temperance
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The first Jewel in the Sigma is... - -Compassion!
This jewel is dedicated to the Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
The Second Jewel in the Sigma is... - ✅✅ -Courtesy!
This jewel is dedicated to the mothers of Delta members
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The third jewel in the Sigma is... - -Dedication!
This jewel is dedicated to the National Presidents, past and present.
Alpha Chapter history - ✅✅ -The members agreed that the Sorority should become
a chartered organization at Howard University
In 1919.. - ✅✅
-First honorary members of DST: Nannie H Burroughs, Gabrielle
Pelham, Mary Church Terrell
✅✅-Mary McLeod Bethune, Honorary Member, initiated
In 1923.. -
Osceola Macarthy Adams - ✅✅-She taught drama at Bennett College and served
as Directress of the Harlem School of the Arts
Marguerite Young Alexander - ✅✅-Was born in Chicago, Illinois
Winona Cargile Alexander - ✅✅-She was Alpha Chapter's first custodian
Ethel Cuff Black - ✅✅-First Vice President of Alpha Chapter
Became a social studies teacher
Charter member of Queens (NY) Alumnae Chapter
Bertha Pitts Campbell - ✅✅ -Was born in Winfield, Kansas
On March 3, 1913, she participated in the Women's Suffrage March
She repeated this momentous walk on August 2, 1981
, Zephyr Chisom Carter - ✅✅-Founder Zephyr Chisom Carter was a very gifted
woman who was not only a singer, but an actress as well
She harnessed her vocal powers and sang for television shows
Edna Brown Coleman - ✅✅ -She was extremely dedicated and studious and
graduated from Howard in 1913 as valedictorian and class president
Jessie McGuire Dent - ✅✅ -Was the first corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter
She became a teacher in the Galveston School District
She battled the Galveston School District in court and won equal wages for Black
teachers
Frederica Chase Dodd -✅✅-She was the first sergeant-at-arms of Alpha Chapter
Myra Davis Hemmings - ✅✅-She served as president of Alpha Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority
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Olive Claire Jones - -Founder Olive Jones became a music teacher in the
Washington, DC public school system
Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ✅✅ -She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in
the march for women's suffrage
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor -✅✅ -Was an excellent musician
She graduated as valedictorian of the Teacher's College
Vashti Turley Murphy - ✅✅ -From Washington, DC, graduated from M Street High
School, later known as Dunbar High School
This was the first public high school for Blacks in the United States
Naomi Sewell Richardson - ✅✅ -Was the last surviving Founder when she died in
1993
She married Clarence W Richardson
Mamie Reddy Rose - ✅✅-From the small town of Belton, South Carolina
Eliza Pearl Shippen - ✅✅-Founder Eliza Pearl Shippen was the only Founder to
receive a doctorate degree and was one of two Founders who never married
Florence Letcher Toms - ✅✅ -At her high school graduation President William
Howard Taft presented her with her diploma and scholarship to Howard University
She introduced First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to an audience of parents at John
Wesley AME Zion Church in 1945
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