Founders of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc.
Osceola Macarthy Adams - ANSInstalled as first President of Lambda Chapter; served as
grand treasurer; decided on the Delta mottoes; one of the first black actresses on Broadway,
and directed the debut of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier
Marguerite Young Alexander - ANSHelped Alpha Nu Chapter purchase a sorority house at
the campus of the University of Illinois
Winona Cargile Alexander - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Custodian; the primary black social
worker for New York City and County Charities
Ethel Cuff Black - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Vice President; constitution member of Queens
Alumnae Chapter; first Black teacher of Richmond County, NY
Bertha Pitts Campbell - ANSEducator; participated within the Women's Suffrage March in
1913 and repeated the equal project in August 1981 on the age of ninety two.
Zephyr Chisom Carter - ANSReporter for Alpha Chapter; featured in Crisis Magazine in 1913
Edna Brown Coleman - ANSPresident and valedictorian of her graduating elegance at
Howard University; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Jessie McGuire Dent - ANSFirst Corresponding Secretary for Alpha Chapter; instrumental in
integrating Galveston Public School System in Texas
Frederica Chase Dodd - ANSFirst Sergeant-at-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member
of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter
Myra Davis Hemmings - ANSFirst President of Alpha Chapter; went from being President of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. To being President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.;
active member of NAACP and National Council of Negro Women
Olive Jones - ANSAccomplished pianist; song trainer in Washington D.C. Public school
device
Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ANSHelped to foyer Delta Sigma Theta's participation inside the
march for Women's Suffrage; Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, N.C.
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Treasurer; author of a ebook of hymns
"Get Off the Judgement Seat"; valedictorian of the Teacher's College (Howard University)
Sorority, Inc.
Osceola Macarthy Adams - ANSInstalled as first President of Lambda Chapter; served as
grand treasurer; decided on the Delta mottoes; one of the first black actresses on Broadway,
and directed the debut of Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier
Marguerite Young Alexander - ANSHelped Alpha Nu Chapter purchase a sorority house at
the campus of the University of Illinois
Winona Cargile Alexander - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Custodian; the primary black social
worker for New York City and County Charities
Ethel Cuff Black - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Vice President; constitution member of Queens
Alumnae Chapter; first Black teacher of Richmond County, NY
Bertha Pitts Campbell - ANSEducator; participated within the Women's Suffrage March in
1913 and repeated the equal project in August 1981 on the age of ninety two.
Zephyr Chisom Carter - ANSReporter for Alpha Chapter; featured in Crisis Magazine in 1913
Edna Brown Coleman - ANSPresident and valedictorian of her graduating elegance at
Howard University; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Jessie McGuire Dent - ANSFirst Corresponding Secretary for Alpha Chapter; instrumental in
integrating Galveston Public School System in Texas
Frederica Chase Dodd - ANSFirst Sergeant-at-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member
of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter
Myra Davis Hemmings - ANSFirst President of Alpha Chapter; went from being President of
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. To being President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.;
active member of NAACP and National Council of Negro Women
Olive Jones - ANSAccomplished pianist; song trainer in Washington D.C. Public school
device
Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ANSHelped to foyer Delta Sigma Theta's participation inside the
march for Women's Suffrage; Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, N.C.
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - ANSAlpha Chapter's first Treasurer; author of a ebook of hymns
"Get Off the Judgement Seat"; valedictorian of the Teacher's College (Howard University)
