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African-American fraternities and sororities are social organizations that predominantly recruit black college students and provide a network that includes both undergraduate and alumni members. These organizations were typically founded by Black American undergraduate students, faculty, and leaders at various institutions in the United States.
Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in 1908 at Howard University as both the first African-American sorority and the first BGLO founded at a black college. [144] Four other BGLOs were in quick succession founded at Howard: Omega Psi Phi (1911), Delta Sigma Theta (1913), Phi Beta Sigma (1914) and Zeta Phi Beta (1920).
First intercollegiate African American fraternity. Only NPHC organization to be founded at an Ivy League university. Alpha Kappa Alpha: ΑΚΑ: Sorority January 15, 1908 Howard University: Chicago, Illinois: 1,074 [8] 360,000 [8] 1930 First intercollegiate African American sorority. First NPHC sorority to be nationally incorporated. Kappa Alpha Psi
Brigadier general; first African-American first captain of the West Point Academy [28] [254] Samuel L. Gravely Jr. Gamma: First African American admiral, United States Navy; first African American to command a US fleet; the Arleigh Burke-class warship USS Gravely (DDG 107) was named in his honor and commissioned on November 20, 2010 [19]
George Biddle Kelley (1884 –1962) was an African American civil engineer and fraternity founder. He was New York's first officially registered African American engineer. While attending Cornell University, Kelley was a founding member and the first president of the Alpha Phi Alpha, the first African American college fraternity in the United Stat
Sigma Pi Phi (ΣΠΦ), also known as The Boulé, is an African American professional fraternity. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1904, it is the oldest Greek lettered fraternity for African Americans. The fraternity does not have collegiate chapters and is designed for professionals in mid-career or older.
Although Alpha Kappa Nu was never incorporated, it was one of the first documented African-American collegiate fraternal organizations in the United States. [2] [4] [a] Its Alpha chapter was the first Black college fraternity to own its own house. [5]
Prince Hall Freemasonry is a branch of North American Freemasonry created for African Americans founded by Prince Hall on September 29, 1784. Prince Hall Freemasonry is the oldest and largest (300,000+ initiated members) predominantly African-American fraternity in the United States.