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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, 


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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, 


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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 AfricanAmerican 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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(10) Patricia Roberts Harris, the first AfricanAmerican woman to serve as an Ambassador of the 

United States, later serving as Secretary of Housing and 

Urban Development and Secretary of Health and Human 

Services under President Jimmy Carter; 

(11) The Honorable Ann Claire Williams, the first 

African-American woman appointed to the United States 

District Court for the North District of Illinois in 1985 

by President Ronald Reagan, the first African-American 

appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the 

Seventh Circuit in 1999 by President William J. Clinton, 

and the third African-American woman to serve as a 

judge on a United States Court of Appeals; 

(12) Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor under 

President William J. Clinton; and 

(13) Regina Benjamin, the 18th Surgeon General of 

the United States, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama; and 

Whereas Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. commemorated its 

history and promoted service during its centennial celebration, January 11 through January 13, 2013, in the 

District of Columbia: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) congratulates Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 

3 Inc. for 100 years of service to communities 

4 throughout the United States and the world; and 

5 (2) commends Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 

6 for its promotion of sisterhood, scholarship, and 

7 service. 

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