[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 13 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 13

Congratulating the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 100 
 years of service to communities throughout the United States and the 
    world, and commending Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its 
           promotion of sisterhood, scholarship, and service.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2013

    Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Cornyn, Ms. 
Mikulski, Mr. Cardin, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Warner, and Mrs. 
 Gillibrand) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Congratulating the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 100 
 years of service to communities throughout the United States and the 
    world, and commending Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its 
           promotion of sisterhood, scholarship, and service.

Whereas, on January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. was founded at 
        Howard University in the District of Columbia by Osceola Macarthy Adams, 
        Marguerite Young Alexander, Winona Cargile Alexander, Ethel Cuff Black, 
        Bertha Pitts Campbell, Zephyr Chisom Carter, Edna Brown Coleman, Jessie 
        McGuire Dent, Frederica Chase Dodd, Myra Davis Hemmings, Olive Jones, 
        Jimmie Bugg Middleton, Pauline Oberdorfer Minor, Vashti Turley Murphy, 
        Naomi Sewell Richardson, Mamie Reddy Rose, Eliza Pearl Shippen, Florence 
        Letcher Toms, Ethel Carr Watson, Wertie Blackwell Weaver, Madree Penn 
        White, and Edith Motte Young;
Whereas, on January 13, 2013, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. celebrated 100 
        years of thoughtful service to and conscientious leadership in 
        communities throughout the United States and the world in diverse fields 
        relating to public service and the organization's five-point 
        programmatic thrust: economic development, educational development, 
        international awareness and involvement, physical and mental health, and 
        political awareness and involvement;
Whereas, in March 1913, the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 
        participated in the Women's Suffrage March in the District of Columbia, 
        the sorority's first public act;
Whereas, in its infancy, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. established its Beta 
        chapter at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio, its Gamma 
        chapter at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
        its Delta chapter at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, and its 
        Epsilon chapter at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio;
Whereas Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. has more than 900 chapters in the 
        United States, England, Japan, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the 
        Bahamas, and South Korea;
Whereas the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have distinguished 
        themselves in the endeavor for civil rights, including Mary McLeod 
        Bethune, Fannie Lou Hamer, Betty Shabazz, Lena Horne, and Dorothy Irene 
        Height;
Whereas the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have distinguished 
        themselves as public servants, including--

    (1) Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, a Member of the House of Representatives 
from Ohio;

    (2) Marcia Fudge, a Member of the House of Representatives from Ohio;

    (3) Joyce Beatty, a Member of the House of Representatives from Ohio;

    (4) Carrie P. Meek, a Member of the House of Representatives from 
Florida;

    (5) Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to 
Congress and the first African-American and woman to run as a major party 
candidate for President of the United States;

    (6) Barbara Jordan, the first African-American woman from the South to 
serve in the House of Representatives;

    (7) Carol Mosley Braun, the first and only African-American woman 
elected to the Senate;

    (8) Mary Church Terrell, a founder of the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People and an adviser to the Republican National 
Committee and the Herbert Hoover presidential campaign;

    (9) Jewel Stradford LaFontant, United States Representative to the 
United Nations and the first female Deputy Solicitor General of the United 
States in the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, later serving 
as the United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and Ambassador-at-
Large in the administration of President George H.W. Bush;

    (10) Patricia Roberts Harris, the first African-American woman to serve 
as an Ambassador of the United States, later serving as Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development and Secretary of Health and Human Services 
under President Jimmy Carter;

    (11) The Honorable Ann Claire Williams, the first African-American 
woman appointed to the United States District Court for the North District 
of Illinois in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan, the first African-American 
appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 
1999 by President William J. Clinton, and the third African-American woman 
to serve as a judge on a United States Court of Appeals;

    (12) Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor under President William J. 
Clinton; and

    (13) Regina Benjamin, the 18th Surgeon General of the United States, 
serving in the administration of President Barack Obama; and

Whereas Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. commemorated its history and promoted 
        service during its centennial celebration, January 11 through January 
        13, 2013, in the District of Columbia: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) congratulates Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for 100 
        years of service to communities throughout the United States 
        and the world; and
            (2) commends Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for its 
        promotion of sisterhood, scholarship, and service.
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