Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists
Biography of Bertha Pitts Campbell, 1889-1990
By Mary T. Henry (written October 1998)
Bertha Pitts Campbell, as a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority at Howard University, participated in the Washington, D.C. suffrage parade on March 3, 1913, sponsored by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. See Paula Giddings, In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (New York: William Morrow, 1988), p. 57.
For a biographical sketch of Campbell, see
http://www.historylink.org/File/28. [LINK]
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