The Greater St. Louis Chapter was chartered in November 1964.

Charter Members

Frances Newberm Wright Bailey

Edward Bond

Mattie Bond

Walter Bond

Frederic Boyd

​Clarence Bush

John Calvin

Georgia Rhodes Chambers

Helen Cleveland

Herschel Deberry

William Deberry

Doris Deberry Eldridge

Glasco Franklin

George Holiday

Jackie Smith Jackson

Paul Jones

Fayetta Jean King

Ernest Mabins

Emmett McWoods

Martha Love Miller

C.R. Sleigh

Willie Smith

Argie Thomas

Sadie Warren

Mattie White

​Lucy Deberry Wynn