Political Awareness and Involvement.

"A group of us felt that it was time for another sorority" (Naomi Sewell Richardson).

"We had broader views. We wanted to reach out to the community. We wanted to be more than just a social group. We wanted to do more when we graduated for the community in which we were going" (Bertha Pitts Campbell).

And so on January 13, 1913, deeply inspired from the nation-wide feminist movement of 1912, 22 intelligent, talented, strong, and courageous women founded Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.

As the legacy continues, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated has progressed into an elite organization that continuously strives to uphold the principles and values that our illustrious founders believed in. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, is a private, non-profit organization whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. As a public service organization Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated has traditionally addressed the issues of the time. In 1913, our founders marched among thousands of others in the Women's Suffrage March. In 1980 Soror Bertha Pitts Campbell, one of our distinguished founders, and 17th National President, Mona Humphries Bailey, led 8,000 Delta's in a reenactment of that historic march in Washington, D.C. On March 26,1995 Delta's also participated in a march commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Women's Suffrage March of 1913.

Our founders were interested in establishing an organization committed to the promotion of high cultural, intellectual, and moral standards among its members for its own benefits as well as for that of the larger society in which it existed. Today, our glorious Sisterhood has a membership of over 200,000 predominately African-American, college-educated women. The Sorority currently has 950-plus chapters located in the United States, Japan, Germany, Bermuda, Haiti, Liberia, the Bahamas, the Republic of Korea and the Virgin Islands.

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