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Delta Sigma Theta Founders Test Study Guide Questions and Answers 2025/2026 Graded A+
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Osceola Macarthy Adams - ✔✔Founder who selected the delta mottoes; an acclaimed actress and Directress of the America Negro Theater. Marguerite Young Alexander - ✔✔Born in Illinois; constant supporter of Alpha Chapter. Winona Cargile Alexander - ✔✔First custodian (historian) of the Alpha Chapter; was the first Black social worker with New York City and New York County charities. Ethel Cuff Black - ✔✔The first Vice President of Alpha Chapter; first Black teacher in Richmond County, NY; charter member of the Queens Alumnae Chapter. Bertha Pitts Campbell - ✔✔The only Black student enrolled at her school; was the valedictorian of the class of 1908. Zephyr Chisom Carter - ✔✔Born in El Paso, Texas; featured in the Crisis Magazine in 1913; reporter for Alpha Chapter. Edna Brown Coleman - ✔✔President and valedictorian of her graduating class; married a Founder of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
Jessie McGuire Dent - ✔✔First Corresponding secretary of Alpha Chapter; instrumental in integrating the Galveston Public School System. Fredrica Chase Dodd - ✔✔First Sergeant-at-Arms of the Alpha Chapter; Charter member of the Dallas Alumnae Chapter. Myra Davis Hemmings - ✔✔First President of the Alpha Chapter; was an active member of the NAACP and the National Council of Negro Women. She went from being President of Alpha Kappa Alpha to being president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Olive C. Jones - ✔✔Accomplished pianist who taught school in Washington, D.C. Jimmie Bugg Middleton - ✔✔President and National Treasurer of National association of College Women; Dean of Girls at the Black High School in Raleigh, N.C. She helped lobby Delta Sigma Theta to participate in the March for Women's Suffrage. Pauline Oberdorfer Minor - ✔✔She was the Alpha's Chapter first Treasurer. ; author of "Get off the Judgment Seat." In 1914, she graduated valedictorian of the Teacher's College. Vashti Turley Murphy - ✔✔Mother of five daughters, four of whom became Deltas; member of the Baltimore Branch of the National Association of College Women. In 1908, she was appointed to teach in Washington D.C. public schools.
Edith Motte Young - ✔✔Served as Alpha Chapter's first Recording Secretary. Taught at Claflin College in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She was also an accomplished pianist.