The History of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a private, non-profit organizaion,whose purpose is to provide services and programs to promote human welfare. This fine sorority has a sisterhood of more than 200,000 predominately Black college educated women, and has over 900 chapters located in the United States, Japan, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Haiti, Liberia, the Bahamas and the Republic of Korea. The major programs of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. are based upon our organization's Five Point Thrust Program:
1. Economic Development
2. Educational Development
3. Physical and Mental Health
4. Political Awareness and Involvement
and 5. International Awareness and Involvement.
This premier, black Greek-letter organization was founded on January 13, 1913, on the campus of Howard University, by 22 dynamic African American women. These young women wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic excellence and to provide assistance to the needy. The founders envisioned an organization of and for college women who were committed to the ideas of serious endeavor and community service, as well as academic achievement and cultural enrichment. These 22 women's ideas of scholarship, character and service were dedicated to a program of sharing membership and organizational skills in the public interest.
Our founders had the wisdom and the foresight to know that there was, and would always be, a need for Black women to be politically aware and involved. The first public act performed by Delta's founders was the Women's Suffrage March in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 1913. They were the only group of black women to participate in the women's suffrage march - only two months after the sorority's inception.
Their ideals of scholarship and service have withstood the test of time, and today Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated is a public service organization dedicated to scholarship, sisterhood, and service in the public interest.
90 years of excellence, we are very proud. |
