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She is known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a major boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This mathematician was known for her calculations that helped NASA successfully send astronauts into space.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Members of Delta Sigma Theta made their public debut by participating in this 1913 march for women’s voting rights.
What is the Women’s Suffrage March?
She became the first Black woman Vice President of the United States in 2021.
Who is Kamala Harris?
She was a Freedom Rider who later became a U.S. Representative from Texas and a powerful civil rights voice.
Who is Barbara Jordan?
This educator and activist helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott by secretly printing and distributing flyers.
Who is Jo Ann Robinson?
She became the first Black woman pilot licensed in the United States, known as the “Queen of the Skies.”
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This Delta Sigma Theta member spent decades advocating for civil rights and led the National Council of Negro Women.
Who is Dorothy Irene Height?
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1993.
Who is Carol Moseley Braun?
She co-founded SNCC and emphasized grassroots, student-led leadership over top-down organizing.
Who is Ella Baker?
She was a key figure in the Little Rock school integration crisis and helped guide the “Little Rock Nine.”
Who is Daisy Bates?
This mathematician and engineer contributed to NASA’s early space missions and is featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Mary Jackson?
This Delta Sigma Theta member broke barriers in politics as the first Black woman elected to Congress and later ran for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
She was the first Black woman federal judge in the United States.
Who is Constance Baker Motley?
She led major voter registration efforts in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and became a national voice for voting rights.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This Mississippi activist became a powerful voice for voting rights after enduring violence and speaking at the Democratic National Convention.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
She was a mathematician and supervisor at NASA who helped manage the “West Area Computers” during the Space Race.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
This Delta Sigma Theta member became the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, breaking a historic barrier in American legal history.
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson?
She became the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. ambassador (to India).
Who is Patricia Roberts Harris?
She created citizenship schools that helped Black Americans gain literacy skills needed to pass voter registration tests.
Who is Septima Clark?
This organizer and strategist played a major role in the Nashville sit-ins and helped lead the broader strategy of nonviolent direct action in the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Diane Nash?
This entrepreneur became one of the first Black women millionaires in the U.S. through her pioneering haircare business in the early 1900s
Who is Madam C. J. Walker?
This annual advocacy initiative organized by Delta Sigma Theta brings members to Washington, D.C. to meet with lawmakers and advocate for policies affecting Black communities.
What is Delta Days in the Nation’s Capital?
She was the first Black woman to serve as a mayor of a major U.S. city (Washington, D.C.).
Who is Sharon Pratt?
She was a journalist and activist whose reporting exposed lynching and helped lay the foundation for early civil rights organizing.
Who is Ida B. Wells?