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At age 92, Campbell led 10,000 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in a march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the participation of some members of the organization in the suffrage march of 1913. Having long survived her husband and son, she spent her final years in a Seattle nursing home and died peacefully at ...
On March 3, 2013, the sorority organized a re-enactment of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. [117] Delta Sigma Theta was the only Black women's organization to participate in the original march. On March 8, 2013, Delta Sigma Theta participated in its tenth annual Delta Day at the United Nations.
The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. [citation needed] The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Members of Delta Sigma Theta were stated to have marched in the Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, in Washington, DC. [1] However, a closer look at the facts determined that only the seniors of sorority marched and did so as representatives of Howard University. [5] [6] As a member of the class of 1913 it is likely that she was a ...
Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. The Great Pilgrimage of 1913 was a march in Britain by suffragists campaigning nonviolently for women's suffrage, organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). Women marched to London from all around England and Wales and 50,000 attended a rally in Hyde Park. [1][2][3][4][5]
A century after the 19th Amendment was ratified, Black women are still on the forefront of voting rights and access in America. How Black women have continued the fight to vote 100 years after ...
Howard University, 1914. Occupation (s) Educator, suffragist. Employer. New York City Public Schools (1920-1947) Known for. One of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta. Naomi Sewell Richardson (September 24, 1892 – August 5, 1993) [ 1] was an American educator and suffragist. She was a student co-founder of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, the second ...
In 1963, White led a Delta Sigma Theta contingent in the march on Washington with several other civil rights groups. In 1966, she was honored by the Cleveland chapter of the League of Women Voters, for her participation in the 1913 inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and her work on a committee headed by Carrie Chatman Catt. [9]