[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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