May

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Notable Deltas 
  
 

Soror Shirley Franklin served as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, from 2002 to 2010. She was the 58th mayor of Atlanta and the first female to hold the post. Soror Franklin was also the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city. 

Soror Lena Horne appeared onstage in Harlem when she was only 14 years old, and by age 16 she was singing in the famous Cotton Club. Eventually she made her way into films, starring in the popular 1943 musicals "Stormy Weather" with the tap-dancing The Nicholas Brothers and "Cabin in the Sky" with jazz legend Louis Armstrong. Horne's active career spanned six decades, and in 1989 she was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Soror Regina Benjamin

Soror Regina Benjamin is an American physician who currently serves as the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. She was initiated into the sisterhood at the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Xavier University of Louisiana.

Soror Eunice Walker Johnson

Soror Eunice Walker Johnson was best known as the founder and director of Ebony Fashion Fair, which began in the 1950s as a fundraiser. The event became an annual fashion tour that highlighted fashion for African-American women. Soror Johnson was a Golden Life member of the sorority. She was initiated into the organization in 1948 through the Alpha Zeta Chapter at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama.

Soror Carol Moseley-Braun

Soror Mosely-Braun made history by being the first Black woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. From 1999-2001 she served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand. After finishing her ambassadorship, she has taught law and political science at Morris Brown College and DePaul University, and continues her business law practice and business consultancy in Chicago.

Soror Shirley Chisholm

Soror Chisholm was the first Black woman member of the U.S. Congress. She was the first African American woman to run as a major party candidate for the presidency of the United States. Soror Chisholm pledged Delta through the Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter.
 

Soror Vashti Murphy McKenzie

Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie is a woman of firsts. She was the first woman to pastor at Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland. On July 11, 2000, the AME Church elected her its first female bishop in its 213-year history. Soror McKenzie pledged Delta through the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter.

Soror Mary Jane McLeod Bethume

Soror Mary McLeod Bethume was an educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for black students in Daytona Beach, Florida that eventually became Bethume-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Soror Bethume founded the National Council of Negro Women in New York City in 1935, bringing together 28 different organizations to form a council to facilitate the improvement of quality of life for women and their communities.

Soror Dorothy Height

Soror Height began her career as a civil rights activist when she joined the National Council of Negro Women in 1944. She became our sorority's 10th National President. She was presented awards from President Reagan, President Clinton and President George W. Bush. She lived a jublilant life for 98 years. Soror Height was initiated into the organization through the Rho Chapter of Columbia University in the City of New York.
 

Soror Alexis Herman

Soror Herman was the first African-American to become Secretary of Labor. Under her leadership, unemployment in the country reached a 30-year low and the nation witnessed the safest workplace record in the history of the Department of Labor. Currently, Herman serves as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of New Ventures, Inc., and is a partner with Visual Edge. Soror Herman was initiated into the sisterhood in the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Xavier University of Louisiana. 
 

 Soror Myrlie Evers-Williams

Evers-Williams married civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1951. The couple worked for the NAACP against segregation and discrimination in Mississippi. After Evers was assassinated in 1963, Evers-Williams moved to California, where she continued her civil rights work. In 1967 she coauthored a book, "For Us, the Living", with William Peters. Evers-Williams became the first black woman to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works. She was elected the first woman to chair the NAACP in 1995. In 1999, her memoir, "Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be", was published.
 

 Soror Sheryl Lee Ralph

At age 19, she became the youngest female graduate of Rutgers University and was named one of the Top Ten College Women in America by Glamour Magazine. After receiving critical acclaim for her Tony award-nominated performance as Deena Jones, a role she created in Michael Bennett's landmark musical Dreamgirls, Sheryl Lee Ralph turned her attention to television and film. On television, she has starred in It's a Living, New Attitude, George Foreman's series George and the hit comedy Designing Women. Her extensive feature film credits include Sister Act II, The Flintstones, The Mighty Quinn, Mistress, The Distinguished Gentleman, Witchhunt, in which she shares top billing with DennisHopper and Penelope Ann Miller, and To Sleep With Anger for which she won the 1991 "Independent Spirit Award" as Best Supporting Actress.
 

 Soror Johnetta B. Cole, PhD 
 
 

Soror Johnnetta Betsch Cole, an anthropologist and former college president, was named the new director of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian. She made national headlines in 1987, when she became the first African American woman to lead Atlanta's Spelman College, the country's oldest historically black women's university.  During her tenure, attendance soared and the school's ranking on the lists of the best liberal arts schools went up.  After a decade at Spelman, Soror Cole taught at Emory University and then served as president of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 

Soror Nancy Wilson

Soror Wilson began a singing career in the early 1950s, which has flourished into the present. She blurs the line between jazz singer and pop singer preferring to be called a "song stylist"

Soror Nikki Giovanni

Soror Giovanni has made her mark in society as an innovative poet. She published "Racism 101" in 1994, and has done several publications since then, including "Love Poems" in 1997. One of her poems that is very dear to our chapter and an inspiration to all Black Women is "Ego Tripping". 
 

Soror Patricia Roberts Harris

Soror Harris was the first Black woman to be appointed ambassador to a European country (Luxembourg) and to be appointed to a presidential cabinet post as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). She was later appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Soror Harris pledged Delta in the Alpha Chapter at Howard University.

Soror Barbara Jordan

Soror Jordan has been a very influential figure in the political arena. She was the first Black Woman to serve the state of Texas as a Congresswoman and later held a position as a professor at the University of Texas. Soror Jordan pledged Delta in the Delta Gamma Chapter at Xavier University of Louisiana.
 

Soror Leontyne Price

Soror Leontyne Price was born in Laurel, Mississippi and was awarded a scholarship to the famed Julliard School of Music in New York City. This acclaimed opera diva has charmed audiences worldwide for several decades. Soror Price has helped to open doors into this profession by becoming one of the first Black opera divas. In 1999, she was inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and in 2000 was the recipient of the Mississippi Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award 
 

Soror Wilma Rudolph

Soror Wilma Rudolph was the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympiad. She served as Track Director and Special Consultant on Minority Affairs at DePauw University. Soror Rudolph pledged Delta in the Alpha Chi Chapter at Tennessee State University.
 

 Soror Betty Shabazz

Soror Dr. Betty Shabazz was the Director of Communications and Public Relations for Medger Evers College of the City University of New York. She was also widely recognized as the widow of Malcolm X. 
 

Soror Daphne Maxwell Reid

Soror Maxwell Reid received a degree in interior design and architecture from Northwestern University, which she attended on a scholarship and was the first African-American woman to be named Homecoming Queen. While at Northwestern she began a modeling career, eventually signing with the Eileen Ford modeling agency. She was the first black woman to be on the cover of Glamour magazine. People fondly recognize her as Will Smith's aunt on the once popular televison show "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air".

The list goes on . . . !

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