Ethel Cuff Black

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Founding Members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
Osceola Macarthy Adams
Florence Letcher Toms
Ethel Carr Watson
Wertie Blackwell Weaver
Winona Cargile Alexander
Marguerite Young Alexander
Ethel Cuff Black
Zephyr Chisom Carter
Myra Davis Hemmings
Olive C. Jones
Mamie Reddy Rose
Naomi Sewell Richardson
Vashti Turley Murphy
Madree Penn White
Bertha Pitts Campbell
Eliza Pearl Shippen
Frederica Chase Dodd
Edith Motte Young
Jessie McGuire Dent
Edna Brown Coleman
Jimmie Bugg Middleton
Pauline Oberdorfer Minor

Ethel Cuff Black, one of the founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father was a banker in an African-American owned business. Her maternal grandfather was a Civil War veteran.^[1] In Bordentown, New Jersey, she attended the Industrial School for Colored Youth and graduated with the highest grade point average. At Howard University, she was chairwoman of the collegiate chapter of the YWCA.^[2] During college, she was also the vice-president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, but later ceded from the sorority in order to form Delta Sigma Theta with twenty-one other women^[3] Due to illness, she graduated Howard in 1915.^[4] She was also the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York.^[5] She was married in 1939 to real estate agent David Horton Black.^[6]

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^ Giddings, Paula (1988). In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 33. 0688135099.
^ Giddings op. ed. pp. 39
^ Giddings op. ed. pp. 48
^ Giddings op. ed. pp. 65
^ Founders Biography. Kappa Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at the University of Oklahoma. Accessed on August 15, 2007.
^ Giddings op. ed. pp. 185.