Ethel Cuff Black

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.cite book
last =Giddings
first =Paula
title = In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement
publisher = HarperCollins Publishers
date= 1988
location = New York, New York
pages = 33
id =0688135099] 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. [Giddings "op. ed." pp. 39] 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 [Giddings "op. ed." pp. 48] Due to illness, she graduated Howard in 1915. [Giddings "op. ed." pp. 65] She was also the first African-American teacher in Rochester, New York. [ [http://www.ou.edu/student/greek/dst/History05.htm Founders Biography. Kappa Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at the University of Oklahoma] . Accessed on August 15, 2007.] She was married in 1939 to real estate agent David Horton Black. [Giddings "op. ed." pp. 185.]

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* [http://www.utdeltas.com/illustrioussrc.htm Delta Sigma Theta Founder History at the University of Texas]