Happy Founders Day to All of My Beautiful, Amazing and Dynamic Sorors of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. ?? ?? ??

Happy Founders Day to all of my beautiful, amazing and dynamic Sorors of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. ?? ?? ??

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (ΔΣΘ) is a historically African American Greek-lettered sorority. The organization was founded by college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that assist the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, by twenty-two women at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

The largest Black Greek sorority has more than 300,000 initiated members with over 940 chapters located in the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, England, Germany, Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, South Korea, and the United States.

The first public act of Delta Sigma Theta was participating in the Women's Suffrage March in Washington D.C., on March 3, 1913. Since its founding, Delta Sigma Theta has created programming to improve political, education, and social and economic conditions, particularly within Black communities.

Notable Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. include:

• Shirley Chisholm - the first Black woman member of the U.S. Congress, was the first African-American and first woman to run as a major party candidate for the presidency of the United States.
• Dorothy I. Height, Ph.D. - 10th National President (1947-1956), was appointed by President Carter to the Presidential Commission on a National Agenda for the 1980s. She served as president of the National Council of Negro Women for more than 40 years.
• Barbara Jordan - the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress from the South since Reconstruction. She was the first Black woman to preside over a state senate and the first African-American to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
• Carol Moseley Braun - the first Black woman elected to the United States Senate.
• Mary Church Terrell - the first African-American chosen to represent the United States Congress of Women and to serve on the board of education of a major city.
• Carrie P. Meek - served as Congresswoman for the 17th District of Florida for ten years. She was the first African-American elected to represent Florida in the United States House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
• Shirley Jackson, Ph.D. - the 18th President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the first African-American woman to head a leading technological university and the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973).