Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, INC. Commemorates 98 TRAILBLAZING Years of Sisterhood, Scholarship & Service with Rasheeda Liberty

The sisters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. have a legacy as trailblazers with societal contributions including:

• Hattie McDaniel - the first African American to win an Academy Award
• Alice Allison Dunnigan - the first African American female journalist to receive White House credentials, and the first black female member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries
• Maritza Correia McClendon - the first African American Female Olympic Swimmer and Medalist
• Georgia Davis Powers - the first Person of Color and the first African American elected to the Kentucky State Senate in 1967
• Gwendolyn “Gwen” Sawyer Cherry - the first African American woman to serve as a state legislator in Florida in 1970
• In 1948, Sigma Gamma Rho was one of the founding members of the American Council on Human Rights