Founders Flashcards
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Osceola Macarthy Adams
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- Selected the Delta mottoes
- Served as Directress of the Harlem School of the Arts/America Negro Theater
- Acclaimed Actress
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Marguerite Young Alexander
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- Chicago, Illinois
- Constant supporter of Alpha Chapter
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Winona Cargile Alexander
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- First black social worker for the New York City and County Charities
- Alpha Chapter’s first custodian (historian)
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Ethel Cuff Black
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- First, Vice President of Alpha Chapter
- Charter member of Queens, NY Alumnae Chapter
- She was the first black teacher in Richmond County, NY
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Bertha Pitts Campbell
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- Born in Winfield, Kansas
- On March 13, 1913, she participated in the March on Washington, Delta’s first public act as a sorority. Sixty-Eight years later, she repeated this momentous walk on August 2, 1981
- Only black student enrolled at her school
- Valedictorian of class of 1908
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Zephyr Chisom Carter
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- El Paso, Texas
- Alpha Chapter’s first reporter
- Gifted singer and actress, sang for television shows
- Featured in The Crisis Magazine 1913
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Edna Brown Coleman
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- Class president and valedictorian of her graduating class @ Howard in 1913
- Married a founder of Omega Psi Phi
- From Washington, DC
- Father was professor of religion for 31 years at Howard University
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Jessie McGuire Dent
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- First Corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter
- Battled the Galveston School District in court and won equal wages for Black teachers
- Upon her death in 1948, her portrait was displayed in the Texas Cultural Archives
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Frederica Chase Dodd (chasing people out)
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- The first sergeant-at-arms of Alpha Chapter
- Charter the graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Dallas, 1924 (Dallas Alumnae Chapter). Became chapter with first Greek letter organization in the city.
- Helped establish YWCA for Black women in Dallas
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Myra Davis Hemmings
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- From Gonzales, Texas
- Served as first president of Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
- Active member NAACP and National Council of Negro Women
- Co-chairman of the 19th National Convention
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Olive Claire Jones
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- From Washington, D.C.
- Music Teacher in the Washington, D.C. public school system
- Accomplished pianist
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Jimmie Bugg Middleton (bugged women to participate)
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- Lynchburg, Virginia
- She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women’s Suffrage
- Served as Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, NC
- President and National Treasurer of the National Association of College Women
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Pauline Oberdorfer Minor
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- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Alpha Chapter’s first treasurer
- Excellent musician
- 1914, Graduated as valedictorian of the Teacher’s College
- She authored a book of hymns titled “Get Off the Judgement Seat”
- Soprano Soloist
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Vashti Turley Murphy
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- Graduated from M. Street High School, later known as Dunbar High School(The first public high school for Blacks in the US)
- Member of the Baltimore Branch of the National Association of College Women.
- Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas
- Granddaughter Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, has served as the National Chaplain.
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Noami Sewell Richardson
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- First Black graduate of Washingtonville High School
- Last surviving founder died in 1993
- Married Clarence W. Richardson, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha
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Mamie Reddy Rose
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- From Beta, South Carolina
- On February 17, 1919 she became the first founder to enter the Omega Omega Chapter
- Received an award for her outstanding talent as a dramatic reader
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Eliza Pearl Shippen
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- Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Howard University
- Received M.A. and Ph.D.
- Only founder to receive a doctorate degree
- One of two Founders who never married.
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Florence Letcher Toms
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- Introduced First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to an audience of parents at John Wesley AME Zion Church, 1945
- Interacted with multiple presidents including JFK and William Howard Taft
- Collected Elephants
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Ethel Carr Watson
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- Teacher for over thirty years
- second career in dramatics
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Wertie Blackwell Weaver
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- Kansas City, Missouri
- Wrote a novel entitled “The Valley of the Poor” focused on racism and poverty in the south
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Madree Penn White
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- Driving force and inspiration behind Delta
- Accomplished linguist (German, French, Greek, Latin)
- Drafted the initial constitution and by-laws
- Designed ceremony for inducting honorary members
- Designed sorority pin
- Second president of the Alpha Chapter and Delta (1913-1919)
- First woman of the campus paper, Howard University Journal
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Edith Motte Young
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- Recording secretary of Alpha Chapter
- Taught at Claflin College, Orangeburg, S.C.
- Received M.A. in Biblical Literature
