Madree Penn White

Madree Penn White (November 21, 1892 – January 31, 1967) was an American editor, educator, businesswoman and suffragist.

[1] In 1909, she represented the Literary and Historical Society of Omaha in an oratory contest, with a speech titled "Standard Bearers".

At Howard, she was the first "elected" associate woman editor of the school newspaper, an officer of the campus YWCA and NAACP chapters.

[8] In 1963, White led a Delta Sigma Theta contingent in the march on Washington with several other civil rights groups.

In 1966, she was honored by the Cleveland chapter of the League of Women Voters, for her participation in the 1913 inauguration of Woodrow Wilson and her work on a committee headed by Carrie Chatman Catt.

Delta Sigma Theta founders, 1913, at Howard University. Madree Penn: Front row, second from left.