Women of ΔΣΘ break down barriers, shatter glass ceilings, and open long-shut doors in Athletics, Civil Rights, Dance, Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Literature, Medicine, Motherhood, Music, Philanthropy, Philosophy, Politics, Science, Social Work, Theatre, Theology… here are just a few of the many Delta FIRSTS:

• Sadie T. M. Alexander - 1st President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., 1st Black Woman to earn a PhD in Economics.
• H. Elsie Austin - 1st African-American Assistant Attorney General in Ohio.
• Unita Z. Blackwell - 1st Black Woman elected Mayor of any Mississippi city.
• Gwendolyn E. Boyd - 1st Black Woman to earn a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University.
• Carol Moseley Braun - 1st Black Woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Hazel Johnson Brown - 1st Black Woman to achieve the rank of General in the U.S. Army.
• Alexa Canady - 1st Black Woman to enter the field of neurosurgery.
• Shirley Chisholm - 1st Black Woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
• Erica Dunlap - Miss America (2004), 1st ever Black Miss Florida.
• Jocelyn Elders - 1st Black U.S. Surgeon General.
• Frankie Muse Freeman - 1st Black Woman appointed to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
• Patricia Roberts Harris - 1st Black Woman appointed as Secretary to a U.S. Presidential Cabinet; 1st Black Woman named Ambassador to a Foreign Nation.
• Barbara Jordan - 1st African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress from the South since reconstruction.
• Anna Johnson Julian - 1st African-American awarded a Phi Beta Kappa key at the Univ. of Pennsylvania.
• Carrie Meek - 1st Black Woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida.
• Vivian Osborne Marsh - 1st African-American to christen a Navy cargo ship.
• Vashti Murphy McKenzie - 1st Woman to rise to the rank of Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
• Wilma Rudolph - 1st American Woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympiad.
• Niara Sudarkasa - 1st Woman to ascend to the Presidency of Lincoln University, America’s oldest black college.
• Geraldine Pittman Woods - 1st African-American to serve on a the National Advisory General Medical Services Council.
• and the list goes on, and on, and on…

Listed above are just a sampling of the myriad of accomplished Sisters who help mold the legacy that makes ΔΣΘ such a powerful force, one to be reckoned with, and much much more than a sorority.

And you thought you were first?