Delta Sigma Theta is packed with DEVASTATING DIVAS!
Check out our list below of “20 Famous Women You Didn’t Know Were Members Of Delta Sigma Theta!”
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The following 20 women are proof that “Delta Sigma Theta is the ONLY WAY!”
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Keisha Knight Pulliam
Soledad O’Brien
Mara Brock Akil
Shirley Chisholm
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams is a civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Patricia Roberts Harris served in the American administration of President Jimmy Carter as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Dorothy Irene Height
Dorothy Irene Height an American administrator and educator, was a civil rights and women’s rights activist specifically focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.
Barbara Charline Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first southern black female elected to theUnited States House of Representatives, and the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors.
Dr. Nikki Giovanni
Dr. Nikki Giovanni is an American writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world’s most well-known African American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children’s literature.
Lena Horne
Cicely Tyson
Aretha Franklin
Roberta Flack
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price is an American soprano. Born and raised in Laurel, Mississippi, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator and life rights leader best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole is an American singer, songwriter, and performer. The daughter of Nat King Cole, Cole rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as a R&B artist with the hits “This Will Be”, “Inseparable”, and “Our Love”.
Angela Basset
K Michelle
Original Caption: 1965-Betty Shabazz wife of Malcolm X speaking to press.
Betty Shabazz
Betty Shabazz, widow of slain Civil Rights activist Malcolm X, is a member of the New York Alumnae chapter.
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