Happy Founders Day, My Sisters! ❤️ Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, by twenty-two women at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Less than two months after the sorority's founding, the Founders of Delta Sigma Theta began their political activism by participating in the historic 1913 Women's Suffrage March on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913. The twenty-two Founders of Delta Sigma Theta marched with honorary member Mary Church Terrell under the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority banner on the day prior to Woodrow Wilson's inauguration. The sorority believed that black women needed the right to vote to protect against sexual exploitation, promote quality education, assist in the work force, and empower their race. Although the young Founders were criticized for their participation in the suffrage march, none regretted her participation. Florence Letcher Toms commented, "We marched that day in order that women might come into their own, because we believed that women not only needed an education, but they needed a broader horizon in which they may use that education. And the right to vote would give them that privilege." #DST108 #ForwardWithFortitude (at Mobile, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_iXbppbZ-/?igshid=1lkvc36j0v5v3
