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DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC.,
A Public Service Sorority

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 1707 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009. (202)483-5460

MONA HUMPHRIES BAILEY
National President 

ANGELA CURRENT
Executive Director

38th National Convention
August 13-17th - Radissen Hotel
Detroit, Michigan

Theme: "Delta's Impact on the 80's - Black Youth and Black Women".

ORGANIZATION
At the inception of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., founded in 1913 at Howard University, the Founders started an organization of college women pledged to serious endeavor and community service. These students demonstrated vital concern for social welfare, academic excellence and cultural enrichment. Their ideas of scholarship and service have withstood the test of time. Today Delta Sigma Theta is a public service Sorority emphasizing scholarship, character and service dedicated to a program of sharing membership and organizational skills in the public interest. In 1930, Delta Sigma Theta was incorporated as a national organization in Washington, D.C.

DELTA SIGMA THETA'S FIVE POINT PROGRAM THRUST

I EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - 
The emphasis is on creating meaningful educational opportunities for black children. This includes all programs related to youth-library services, Head Start, Heritage Seminars, youth and scholarship programs, training programs and programs for cultural enrichment.

II ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - 
This includes building ghetto power for urban change by mobilizing the black community. Some of the areas embraced are (a) Economic Self-Help Program, (b) organization of grass root neighborhood action groups, (c) assistance to newly elected black officials, (d) job opportunities, (e) consumer education and protection, and (f) investment. 

III COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL INVOLVEMENT - 
The emphasis is on joining hands with local, national, and international organizations to render meaningful services for the improvement of human life.

IV HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - 
This area includes our interest in low income housing. Emphasis is placed on the Turnkey Program which is a way of joining private industry with local and federal government to get necessary low-rent housing built and to encourage home ownership. Decent housing for black people is the goal.

V MENTAL HEALTH - 
This area encompasses programs and projects devoted to the mental health of an individual and a nation. It includes programs geared to combat racism as well as the use of new techniques to treat and prevent mental illness.

MEMBERSHIP:
there are over 100,000 members in 669 chapters grouped into seven regions according to geographic area. The chapters are located in 42 of the 50 states including Alaska, the District of Columbia, Nassau, Bahamas, the Virgin Islands and Haiti in the Caribbean, the Republic of Liberia in West Africa, and in Frankfurt, West Germany, Europe.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS:
The organization has maintained a professionally staffed National Headquarters operation since 1952. It is located at 1707-1709 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009.

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image: 6 women posing together.