1921 - The Kappa Chapter at the University of California - Berkeley was the first Greek letter organization to be established on the west coast.
1922 - Gamma Chapter made the first known donation of $100 to the United Negro College Fund.
1945 - The Sorority as a whole contributed its first donation of $1,000 to the United Negro College Fund.
1947 - On February 8th, The Gamma Iota Chapter was chartered at Hampton University, which held the distinction of being the first chapter of a national Greek letter organization ever to be established on that campus.
1950 - Delta Sigma Theta established its first foreign chapter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
1954 - The Sorority opened its first National Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
1956 - Helen G. Edmonds was the first Black woman to nominate a candidate for the Presidency of the United States when she seconded the nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower for a second term in the office.
1973 - The Sorority implemented The Right to Read Program, which was one of the first nationally coordinated efforts to help the functionally illiterate.
1992 - Delta held its first Delta Youth Days in the Nation’s Capital.
1993 - The Valley Forge Alumnae Chapter unveiled the "Patriots of African Descent Monument" on June 19th, which was the first time that a monument had been dedicated to African American soldiers.
1995 - To date, all of the Black women who have served as U.S. Ambassadors have been members of Delta Sigma Theta.
**Some of these were new to me and only made me PROUDER to be a Delta.**
