About Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter

The Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. was chartered on March 14, 1949. The new chapter was named the Delta Gamma Sigma Chapter but was not organized until February 11, 1950. The first meeting was held at the Third Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn YWCA. Delta Gamma Sigma Chapter was renamed Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter in 1957.

At the time of the first meeting, twenty dedicated and committed Brooklyn Deltas came together to receive the chapter's Charter which was presented to Soror Catherine T. Alexander, Chapter President, by Soror Muriel Johnson Jenkins, National Officer. Present to extend greetings was National President, Soror Dorothy I. Height, Soror Founder Ethel Cuff Black and other visiting sorors. 

These twenty committed women organized programs to enhance the educational and cultural life in the Brooklyn Community. 

Over the past 74 years, the Chapter has diligently pursued the development of programs based on Delta's Five-Point Programmatic Thrust, awarding over $300,00.00 in college scholarships, sponsoring Black College Fairs, and annual overnight Teen Lift Tours to historically Black colleges and universities, encouraging reading through School America, fostering science, mathematics, and technology with the SEE program and supporting Black businesses. We have provided support to school children in Sierra Leone and Ghana and supported other International Awareness projects in Haiti, Central and South America, Grenada, and Ethiopia. The Chapter's Poetry Slam provides a public speaking forum for young people while the Black Book Fair provides local and nationally known authors and publishers the opportunity to bring the written word to our community. Brooklyn's youth are further supported by the EMBODI and DR. BETTY SHABAZZ DELTA ACADEMY programs for boys and girls, respectively.