In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement

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This background of the biggest block women’s corporation in the usa isn’t only the tale of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), but also tells of the raising involvement of black ladies in the political, cultural, and financial affairs of America. Searching for Sisterhood is filled with compelling, fascinating anecdotes informed by the Deltas themselves, and illustrated with uncommon early photos of the Delta ladies. There can be, in Giddings’s eyes, a stress between these goals which makes Delta Sigma Theta a remarkable microcosm of the struggles of dark women and their agencies. As a sorority, it had been formed to bring females collectively as sisters, but at the time to handle the divisive, frequently class-related issues confronting dark women in our culture.”

Giddings notes that unlike additional institutions with racial goals, Delta Sigma Theta was made to improve and benefit individuals instead of culture.

DST associates have got included Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary Church Terrell, Margaret Murray Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and, on the cultural aspect, Leontyne Cost, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Judith Jamison, and Roberta Flack. Founded at the same time when liberal arts education was broadly viewed as either futile, harmful, or impractical for blacks, especially females, DST is definitely, in Giddings’s phrases, a “compelling reflection of block women’s aspirations for themselves and for culture.

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