22 Determined and Devoted Women
Howard University
Washington, D.C.
January 13, 1913
At the inception of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, the Founders envisioned an organization of college women pledged to serious endeavors and community service. These youthful students demonstrated a vital concern for social welfare, academic excellence, and cultural enrichment, and de-emphasized the social side of sorority life. Their ideals of scholarship and service have withstood the test of time; and today Delta Sigma Theta is a public service sorority, dedicated to a program of sharing membership skills and organizational services in the public interest.
The first official act of Delta’s Founders had a social action impact. They marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. under the banner of Delta Sigma Theta in the feminists’ demonstration in March of 1913. In 1930, Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated as a national organization. The record of incorporation is filed at the Congressional Library.
For more information about this wonderful sorority, please read "In Search of Sisterhood" by Paula H. Giddings and visit the National website of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
