DELTA SIGMA THETA FOUNDERS TEST STUDY GUIDE/22 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (A+)

Osceola Macarthy Adams - √Answer :Founder who selected the Delta mottoes; an acclaimed actress and Directress of the American Negro Theatrer (Harlem School of the Arts). Quiz :Marguerite Young Alexander - √Answer :Born in Illinois; constant supporter of Alpha Chapter. Helped purchase sorority house on the campus of University of llinois. Quiz :Winona Cargile Alexander - √Answer :Born in Columbus, GA. First custodian (historian) of the Alpha Chapter; was the first Black social worker with New York City and New York County charities. Quiz :Ethel Cuff Black - √Answer :The first Vice President of Alpha Chapter; first Black teacher in Richmond County, NY; charter member of the Queens Alumnae Chapter. Quiz :Bertha Pitts Campbell - √Answer :The only Black student enrolled at her school; the valedictorian for class of 1908; Women's suffrage march twice. Quiz :Zephyr Chisom Carter - √Answer :Born in El Paso, Texas; featured in the Crisis Magazine in 1913; reporter for Alpha Chapter.Quiz :Edna Brown Coleman - √Answer :President and valedictorian of her graduating class; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Quiz :Jessie McGuire Dent - √Answer :First Corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter; instrumental in integrating the Galveston Public School System. Quiz :Frederica Chase Dodd - √Answer :First Sergeantat-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter. Quiz :Myra Davis Hemmings - √Answer :First President of the Alpha Chapter; was an active member of the NAACP and the National Council of Negro Women. She went from being President of Alpha Kappa Alpha to being president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Quiz :Olive Claire Jones - √Answer :Accomplished pianist who taught school in Washington, D.C. Never married. Quiz :Jimmie Bugg Middleton - √Answer :President and National Treasurer of National Association of College Women; Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, N.C. She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage. Quiz :Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - √Answer :She was the Alpha's Chapter first Treasurer. ; author of "Get off the Judgment Seat." In 1914, she graduated valedictorian of the Teacher's College