Delta Firsts

[toocute]

Ladies of DST, I was enjoying this thread. Please keep the posts coming.

[CrimsonTide4]

Soror Shirley Chisolm was the first African American woman elected to Congress.

Soror Vashti Murphy McKenzie is the first woman bishop elected within the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

[CrimsonTide4]

She has a host of firsts:

She was the first national executive of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

She was a Phi Beta Kappa and became the youngest member of the board of directors of Georgetown University.

In 1964, Harris became the first black woman ambassador when President Lyndon Johnson named her ambassador to Luxembourg.

During her tenure at HUD, she created and enacted the first National Urban Policy.

She achieved many firsts, among them:
the first black female cabinet member,
first black female ambassador,
first black to serve in the United Nations,
first black female on major corporate boards,
first black female to chair a national political party committee,
first black female to participate in a presidential nomination,
first female to serve as dean of a law school,
and first black, and only woman to serve in three cabinet level positions.

A United States commemorative stamp was issued in honor as part of the Black Heritage Series.


Kudos Soror Patricia who was born on May 31, 1924. She passed away on March 23, 1985.

[brickhouse492]

Wilma Rudolph was the first American female to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympiad in 1960.

Before she died, she served as Track Director and Special Consultant on Minority Affairs at DePauw University.

[FLKING]

I know there are plenty "Firsts" that have been accomplished by the ELITE WOMEN OF DST... however, these are some the ones I enjoyed learning about

Vivian Osborne Marsh-- Only African American person in the U.S. to ever Christen a Navy Cargo Ship

Brigadier General Hazel Johnson Brown Ph.D.--The first African American woman General in the U.S. Army

Beverly Greene-- First African American Woman to receive a degree in Architectural Science from the University of Illinois

Elaine Jones-- The first African American Woman elected to the American Bar Association Board of Governors.

[CrimsonTide4]

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.**

[ladygreek]

CT4, the first Delta GCer to publish a book.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by ladygreek
CT4, the first Delta GCer to publish a book.

You about to make me cry. I should actually, according to my vision, finish the book tonight after Soul Food goes off.


I will spend all day tomorrow editing and proofreading. I want to mail it off no later than next Wednesday to be copyrighted.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
1921 - The Kappa Chapter at the University of California - Berkeley was the first Greek letter organization to be established on the west coast.

Not to rain on the parade of amazing accomplishments by DSTs, but our Eta chapter was established there (UC-Berk) in 1894.

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Not to rain on the parade of amazing accomplishments by DSTs, but our Eta chapter was established there (UC-Berk) in 1894.

LET ME CLARIFY:


The first of BGLOs. I copied and pasted from another website.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
LET ME CLARIFY:


The first of BGLOs. I copied and pasted from another website.

That's what I figured - y'all usually have your facts straight! And you sure got out there a lot quicker than we did - it took us 20 years.

[dstbrat]

Soror Vivian Malone Jones- the 1st African American to be graduate from the University of Alabama (she was the one that Gov Wallace attempted to bar in the famous footage)

Soror Charlene Hunter Gault- 1st African-American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia

[KappaKittyCat]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
1995 - To date, all of the Black women who have served as U.S. Ambassadors have been members of Delta Sigma Theta.

I did not know that. It's an amazing accomplishment for each of those women and it says a lot about the sorority that helped shape who they are. Congratulations.

[mccoyred]

...And both Black women who are/have been a Presidential candidate are Deltas. Who are they?

1995 - To date, all of the Black women who have served as U.S. Ambassadors have been members of Delta Sigma Theta.

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by mccoyred
...And both Black women who are/have been a Presidential candidate are Deltas. Who are they?

Shirley Chisholm and Carol Mosely Braun.