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 was founded on January 13, 1913 by twenty-two collegiate women at Howard University.
The organization is a sisterhood of predominately Black, college educated women. The sorority currently has 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, England, Japan(Tokyo and Okinawa). Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica and the Republic of Korea.
For more information, visit our national website at www.deltasigmatheta.org
FOUNDERS OF DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY
Osceola Macarthy Adams
Marguerite Young Alexander
Winona Cargile Alexander
Ethel Cuff Black
Bertha Pitts Campbell
Zephyr Chisom Carter
Edna Brown Coleman
Jessie McGuire Dent
Frederica Chase Dodd
Myra Davis Hemmings
Olive Claire Jones
Jimmie Bugg Middleton
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
Vashti Turley Murphy
Naomi Sewell Richardson
Mammie Reddy Rose
Eliza Pearl Shippen
Florence Letcher Toms
Ethel Carr Watson
Wertie Blackwell Weaver
Madree Penn White
Edith Motte Young