Myra Hemmings Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Myra Hemmings Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Myra Lillian Davis Hemmings (August 30, 1895 â€" December 8, 1968) was

an American actress and teacher, and a founder of Delta Sigma Theta

Sorority, Incorporated.Hemmings was born in Gonzales, Texas to Henry

and Susan (Dement) Davis. In 1909, she graduated from Riverside High

School in San Antonio, Texas. At Howard University in Washington,

D.C., Davis was a part of the group of seven who were newly initiated

into the Alpha chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha in 1912, where she was

elected president. A dichotomy ensued between the combined 22

undergraduate Alpha chapter women and the newly graduated

establishment of Alpha Kappa Alpha, with the younger women, led by

Davis, becoming progressively more dissatisfied with the campus

society-focused agenda of the sorority.The seven along with the

fifteen other members of the undergraduate Alpha chapter who voted to

reorganize Alpha Kappa Alpha into a public service-centered

organization and, after declining an ultimatum from a key dissenting

graduated Î'ΚÎ', formed Delta Sigma Theta. She was later named first

president of Delta Sigma Theta's Alpha chapter. In 1913, Hemmings

graduated from Howard University. After graduation, Davis began

teaching in 1913 in San Antonio, Texas. In 1922 Davis married John W.

Hemmings, a former actor on Broadway.Hemmings was active in amateur

theater and participated in the San Antonio Negro Little Theater by

directing productions. She and her husband helped to organize Phyllis

Wheatley Dramatic Guild Players. In her career, she appeared in three

films. First, in the 1941 tragic drama film Go Down Death: The Story

of Jesus and the Devil, she starred as the martyr Sister Caroline. In

addition to acting, Hemmings co-produced and co-directed the film. In

the 1943 film Marching On, she played Mrs. Ellen Tucker. In Girl in

Room 20 (1946), she played Sarra Walker.
Myra Hemmings Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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