LOS ANGELES - NOV 14: Keshia Knight Pulliam at the "It's A Wonderful Lifetime" Red Carpet at the Grove on November 14, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA / Natalie Cole at 2002 Grammy Awards, LA, CA 2/27/2002
Although big names including Aretha Franklin, Angela Bassett and Soledad O’Brien are considered honorary members, we’re taking this Founders’ Day to celebrate women who actually pledged the sorority either as undergraduate or graduate school students. From singers to civic leaders, here are Delta Sigma Theta members who were truly about that Greek life.
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack at The Recording Academy and Clive Davis Present The 2010 Pre-Grammy Gala – Salute To Icons, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA. 01-30-10
The future “Killing Me Softly” singer pledged Delta Sigma Theta as an undergraduate student at Howard University. Check out a photo of Flack with her sorors in 1965.
Although Barbara Charline Jordan initially wanted to attend the University of Texas at Austin, the institution was segregated at the time. She instead attended Texas Southern, where she pledged Delta Sigma Theta. Jordan graduated magna cum laude with a double major in political science and history.
She went on to become the first African-American elected to the Texas Senate since reconstruction and the first Southern black woman elected to the House of Representatives.
Betty Shabazz
Betty Shabazz
In the early 1950s, Shabazz attended Tuskeegee Institute in Alabama to study education. The Detroit native, however, couldn’t stand the Jim Crow laws of the south and soon decided to move to New York City to study nursing, where she met future husband Malcolm X.
In 1969, she completed her undergraduate degree in education at Jersey City State College. She went on to earn her doctorate at the the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she pledged Delta Sigma Theta in April 1974.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
LOS ANGELES – NOV 14: Keshia Knight Pulliam at the “It’s A Wonderful Lifetime” Red Carpet at the Grove on November 14, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA
Best known for her role as Rudy Huxtable on The Cosby Show, Pulliam pledged Delta Sigma Theta while attending Spelman College. She graduated with honors in 2001 with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and a concentration in film.
Keshia Knight Pulliam and her fellow “devastating divas.”
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