Pauline Oberdorfer Minor

Pauline Oberdorfer Minor (c. 1885 – January 23, 1963) was an American teacher, singer and composer who was one of the 22 founders of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

She served as president of the Teacher's Club at Howard for one year and her achievements were noted in the NAACP's Crisis magazine edited by W.E.B.

Her book, Soul Echoes featured forty of her compositions including "Get Off the Judgment Seat" and "My Lord Is a Refuge".

[6] She was working as a housekeeper when she died and was interred in a pauper's grave alongside three other people in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania.

[1] In 2015, a monument to Oberdorfer Minor was erected in Eden Cemetery by the Philadelphia Alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Oberdorfer Minor (middle row, left) along with 18 other Founders of Delta Sigma Theta in 1913
Pauline Richardson Oberdorfer Minor gravestone in Eden Cemetery