2024 Delta Sigma Theta Founders Test Study Guide Questions and Answers Graded A+

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Osceola Macarthy Adams - ✔✔Founder who selected the delta mottoes; an acclaimed actress and Directress of the America Negro Theater. Marguerite Young Alexander - ✔✔Born in Illinois; constant... supporter of Alpha Chapter. Winona Cargile Alexander - ✔✔First custodian (historian) of the Alpha Chapter; was the first Black social worker with New York City and New York County charities. Ethel Cuff Black - ✔✔The first Vice President of Alpha Chapter; first Black teacher in Richmond County, NY; charter member of the Queens Alumnae Chapter. Bertha Pitts Campbell - ✔✔The only Black student enrolled at her school; was the valedictorian of the class of 1908. Zephyr Chisom Carter - ✔✔Born in El Paso, Texas; featured in the Crisis Magazine in 1913; reporter for Alpha Chapter. Edna Brown Coleman - ✔✔President and valedictorian of her graduating class; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.Jessie McGuire Dent - ✔✔First Corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter; instrumental in integrating the Galveston Public School System. Fredrica Chase Dodd - ✔✔First Sergeant-at-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter. Myra Davis Hemmings - ✔✔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. Olive C. Jones - ✔✔Accomplished pianist who taught school in Washington, D.C. Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ✔✔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. Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - ✔✔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. Vashti Turley Murphy - ✔✔Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas; member of the Baltimore Branch of the National Association of College Women. In 1908, she was appointed to teach in Washington D.C. public schools.Naomi Sewell Richardson - ✔✔Last surviving founder when she died in 1993; the first Black graduate of Washingtonville High School; married a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. Mamie Reddy Rose - ✔✔First of the Founders. to enter into the Omega Omega Chapter on Feb. 17, 1919. Of all the other founding members, Ms. Rose got married and became a homemaker. Eliza Pearl Shippen - ✔✔Graduated magna cum laude from Howard University; received her M.A. and PhD. Florence Letcher Toms - ✔✔Presented First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to parents at the John Wesley AME Zion Church in 1945; had interactions with multiple US Presidents including William H. Taft and John F. Kennedy. Ms. Toms collected elephants, which has become a hobby to Delta's all over the world. Ethel Carr Watson - ✔✔Teacher for more than 30 years then began a career in dramatics. During the significant March for Women's Suffrage, Ms. Watson confided that her family told her not to march, but was forced to defy the order because she was selected to hold the banner since she was the tallest. Wertie Blackwell Weaver - ✔✔Author of the novel entitled "The Valley of the Poor." Her book focused on racism and poverty in the South. Madree Penn White - ✔✔Accomplished linguist who spoke German, French, Greek, and Latin; designed ceremony for inducting Honorary Members; first woman of the campus paper, The Howard University Journal.Edith Motte Young - ✔✔Served as Alpha Chapter's first Recording Secretary. Taught at Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She was also an accomplished pianist [Show More]

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