March 4, 2013
Deltas Honor Founders in Historic March
PHOTO: Roy Lewis
Thousands of members of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. took to the streets of Washington, D.C. on Sunday commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage March in which the Delta’s 22 founders participated. Delta Sigma Theta is now the single largest predominantlyAfrican-American women's organization in the country.
Led by a banner with the theme, “Tracing the Footsteps of Our Founders,” the women in red gathered on the west front of the Capitol and braved cold temperatures marching the 3.1 miles past the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue and concluding on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
Some honored the 22 founders by dressing in the fashions of 1913. The 1913 march sought to draw public attention and support for the suffragists’cause seven years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.