Sponsored Legislation
113TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION S. RES. 13
Congratulating the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 100
years of service to communities throughout the United States and the
world, and commending Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its promotion
of sisterhood, scholarship, and service.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY 24 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013
Mr. BROWN (for himself, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. COCHRAN, Mr. CORNYN, Ms. MIKULSKI,
Mr. CARDIN, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. WARNER,
and Mrs. GILLIBRAND) submitted the following resolution; which was referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary
RESOLUTION
Congratulating the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc. for 100 years of service to communities throughout
the United States and the world, and commending Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its promotion of sisterhood,
scholarship, and service.
Whereas, on January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc. was founded at Howard University in the District of
Columbia by Osceola Macarthy Adams, Marguerite
Young Alexander, Winona Cargile Alexander, Ethel Cuff
Black, Bertha Pitts Campbell, Zephyr Chisom Carter,
Edna Brown Coleman, Jessie McGuire Dent, Frederica
Chase Dodd, Myra Davis Hemmings, Olive Jones,
Jimmie Bugg Middleton, Pauline Oberdorfer Minor,
with
Vashti Turley Murphy, Naomi Sewell Richardson, Mamie
Reddy Rose, Eliza Pearl Shippen, Florence Letcher
Toms, Ethel Carr Watson, Wertie Blackwell Weaver,
Madree Penn White, and Edith Motte Young;
Whereas, on January 13, 2013, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
Inc. celebrated 100 years of thoughtful service to and
conscientious leadership in communities throughout the
United States and the world in diverse fields relating to
public service and the organization’s five-point programmatic
thrust: economic development, educational development,
international awareness and involvement,
physical and mental health, and political awareness and
involvement;
Whereas, in March 1913, the founders of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, Inc. participated in the Women’s Suffrage
March in the District of Columbia, the sorority’s first
public act;
Whereas, in its infancy, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. established
its Beta chapter at Wilberforce University in
Wilberforce, Ohio, its Gamma chapter at the University
of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, its Delta
chapter at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and
its Epsilon chapter at the Ohio State University in Columbus,
Ohio;
Whereas Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. has more than
900 chapters in the United States, England, Japan, Germany,
the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and
South Korea;
Whereas the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have
distinguished themselves in the endeavor for civil rights,
with
including Mary McLeod Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer,
Betty Shabazz, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Irene Height;
Whereas the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have
distinguished themselves as public servants, including—
(1) Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, a Member of the House
of Representatives from Ohio;
(2) Marcia Fudge, a Member of the House of Representatives
from Ohio;
(3) Joyce Beatty, a Member of the House of Representatives
from Ohio;
(4) Carrie P. Meek, a Member of the House of Representatives
from Florida;
(5) Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American
woman elected to Congress and the first African-American
and woman to run as a major party candidate for
President of the United States;
(6) Barbara Jordan, the first African-American
woman from the South to serve in the House of Representatives;
(7) Carol Mosley Braun, the first and only African-
American woman elected to the Senate;
(8) Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People and
an adviser to the Republican National Committee and the
Herbert Hoover presidential campaign;
(9) Jewel Stradford LaFontant, United States Representative
to the United Nations and the first female
Deputy Solicitor General of the United States in the administration
of President Richard M. Nixon, later serving
as the United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and
Ambassador-at-Large in the administration of President
George H.W. Bush;
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