WE’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER. >> ON. >> MARCH THIRD NINETEEN THIRTEEN. THE DAY BEFORE WOODROW WILSON’S PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION MORE THAN FIVE THOUSAND WOMEN FOUGHT THEIR WAY STEP BY STEP DOWN PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE THROUGH COMBATIVE POLICE FORCES AND WITH JEERING BYSTANDERS IT TOOK THOSE LADIES
MORE THAN AN HOUR TO TRAVEL JUST THE FIRST TEN BLOCKS MARCHING STRONG ON THAT DAY WERE HUNDREDS OF ADVOCATES FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE INCLUDING MEMBERS OF DELTA SIGMA THETA EVEN THOUGH IT WAS THEM. WHO MANY OF THE SUFFRAGETTES ALSO WANTED TO EXCLUDE FROM THE
DEMONSTRATION WITH DIGNITY IN THE FACE OF DISCRIMINATION THESE WOMEN STOOD UP FOR THE AMBITIONS AS AMERICAN CITIZENS BOTH TO VOTE AND TO BE SEEN AS EQUAL JUST MONTHS BEFORE THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE HISTORIC DEMONSTRATION THAT GROUP OF WOMEN FORMED A SORORITY JUST
MILES AWAY FROM PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY ON. >> THIS DAY IN NINETEEN THIRTEEN TWENTY TWO BLACK WOMEN RMEDELTA >> SIGMA THETA SORORITY WITH WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND WELFARE AT THIS CORE THEY EMPHASIZE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE SOCIAL ACTIVISM EQUALITY AND SERVICE..
MANY TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY TO CELEBRATE THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH YEAR OF DELTA INCLUDING VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS WHO SAID YOUR LEADERSHIP HAS HELPED FURTHER PROGRESS IN SOCIAL ACTION AND COMMUNITIES ACROSS THIS COUNTRY.. >> PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE
BEGS H OWNOE ALL DAY IN MISS ROBERTA FLACK CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST BARBARA JORDAN SHIRLEY. >> CHISHOLM AND DR DOROTHY IRENE HEIGHT. >> DELTA’S TENTH NATIONAL PRESIDENT WAS ONE OF THE ON LY BLACK WOMEN ON STAGE DURING NINETEEN SIXTY THREE HISTORIC MARCH ON WASHINGTON HI ALSO
SERVED AS A PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF NEGRO WOMEN FOR FORTY YEARS. >> WITH THE MOTTO INTELLIGENCE IS THE TORCH OF WISDOM. >> THE ORGANIZATION CONTINUES TO ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE. TWO IS THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND MEMBERS WORLDWIDE SO. >> TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE
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