Public Service Programs
Protocol and Traditions
Philosophy/Principles
Awards and Scholarships
Founders
100

Financial Fortitude and Delta Habitat are both programs under this Five Point Programmatic Thrust

Economic Development

100

"Scholarship, fellowship, service and a desire to attain all that would ennoble" is known as this

Pyramid Public Motto

100

Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated in this year

1930

100

This award honors achievement in field of communication

Lillian Award

100

This Founder was the First Custodian of the Alpha Chapter

Winona Cargile Alexander

200

Delta Teen Lift and Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy are both programs under this Five Point Programmatic Thrust

Educational Development

200

This was commissioned by the Sorority and unveiled at Howard University in 1979

Fortitude Pin

200

This Honorary Member wrote the Delta Oath

Mary Church Terrell

200

This award is described as a bronze statue of a Black woman - arms are broken

Sadie T.M. Alexander Award

200

This Founder helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage

Jimmie Bugg Middleton

300

Thika Memorial Hospital and World AIDS Day Activities are both programs under this Five Point Programmatic Thrust

International Awareness

300

"Intelligence is the Torch of Wisdom" is known as

Sorority Public Motto

300

Alice Dunbar Nelson and Florence Cole Talbert McCleave are the writers of this

Delta National Hymn

300

This award is given for Outstanding Government Service

Patricia Roberts Harris Award

300

This Founder participated in the March on Washington in 1913 and 1981

Bertha Pitts Campbell

400

Healthy Lifestyle: The Total Woman: Mind, Body and Spirit and My Cry in the Dark are both programs under this Programmatic Thrust

Physical and Mental Health

400

This rap of order for Delta meetings and ceremonies cues sorors to be seated, attention, and end of ceremony

One Rap

400

The first two graduate (now called alumnae) chapters authorized by Delta Sigma Theta

New York City and Washington, D.C.

400

This award recognizes a Honorary Member that established home for unwanted babies

Clara M. Hale Humanitarian Award

400

This Founder was the First Corresponding Secretary of Alpha Chapter and integrated the Galveston Public School System

Jessie McGuire Dent

500

Delta Days in the Nation's Capital and Voters Education/Voters Registration are both programs under this Programmatic Thrust

Political Awareness & Involvement

500

This rap order for Delta meetings and ceremonies cues sorors to affirm the Sacred Vow and affirm the Sacred Trust

Two or Three Raps

500

She was one of the first Honorary Members initiated into Delta Sigma Theta

Nannie Burroughs, Gabrielle Pelham, or Mary Church Terrell

500

This award is for Outstanding contributions to African American Heritage

Keeper of the Flame Award

500

This Founder graduated from the first public high school for Blacks in the U.S. known as Dunbar H.S. in Washington, D.C.

Vashti Turley Murphy