List of Delta Sigma Theta Sisters - "Delta Girl" - Civil Rights

Civil Rights

Name Original chapter Notability Reference
Joyce Barrett Honorary SNCC worker; One of the few white northerners to join the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s
Daisy Bates Honorary Advisor to the Little Rock Nine to integrate Little Rock Central High School; civil rights activist
Nannie Burroughs Honorary One of the founders of National Association of Colored Women; Founder of the National Training School for Girls in Washington, DC; Associate editor of the Christian Banner, a Philadelphia newspaper; civil rights activist
Coralie Franklin Cook Honorary One of the founders of National Association of Colored Women; Civil rights activist and suffragist
Fannie Lou Hamer Honorary American voting rights activist and civil rights leader
Myrlie Beasley Evers-Williams Unknown Wife of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers; In 1995 she made history as the 1st woman to chair the NAACP; former NAACP chairwoman
Vivian Malone Jones Unknown Civil Rights Activist. First African-American to enroll and graduate from the University of Alabama despite Governor George Wallace infamous "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door" who was in defiance of orders to admit black students.
Mary McLeod Bethune Honorary Eighth President of the National Association of Colored Women; founder of the National Council of Negro Women; founder of the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls; civil rights activist; founder of Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona beach, Fl)
Frankie Muse Freeman Gamma Iota Civil rights attorney; First woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964 to 1979)
Betty Jean Sanders-Shabazz New York Alumnae Civil rights activist; Wife of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X; Former director of the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn's Department of Communications and Public Relations.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Gamma One of the first African Americans to receive a Ph.D. in the United States; First black woman to receive a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and in the United States; First black woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; First black woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar
Mary Church Terrell Honorary Writer, Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist; First president of the National Association of Colored Women; First black woman to represent the U.S. Congress of Women; First black woman to serve on the Washington DC Board of Education
Henrietta Bell Wells Alpha Iota Member of the Historic Wiley Debate team as portrayed in the "Great Debaters"; basis for Jurnee Smollett's character; First African-American teacher at Bonner Elementary School

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Famous quotes by civil rights:

    “...I was confronted with a virile idealism, an awareness of what man must have for manliness, dignity, and inner liberty which, by contrast, made me see how easy living had made my own group into childishly unthinking people. The Negro’s struggles and despairs have been like fertilizer in the fields of his humanity, while we, like protected children with all our basic needs supplied, have given our attention to superficialities.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 19 (1962)

    “... two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 16 (1962)

    “Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)