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Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (ΚΑΨ) is a historically African American fraternity.Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911, at Indiana University Bloomington, it has never restricted membership based on color, creed, or national origin though membership traditionally is dominated by those of Black heritage.
Kappa Alpha Psi (ΚΑΨ), an international historically Black fraternity, has chartered over 400 undergraduate chapters in the continental United States, plus alumni and international chapters. The fraternity has over 150,000 members and is divided into twelve provinces (districts/regions), with each chapter under the aegis of a province.
The campus of Indiana University at that time did not encourage the assimilation of Blacks. Kappa Alpha Psi is the second oldest existing collegiate historically Black Greek letter organization and the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body. [1]
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: ΚΑΨ: Fraternity January 5, 1911 Indiana University Bloomington: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 649
The national headquarters of both the Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma Nu are located in Lexington. The members of the Triad are sometimes also grouped as part of the Virginia Circle , which includes several other fraternities founded in Virginia roughly during the period of the Lexington Triad: Kappa Sigma and Pi Kappa Alpha at the University of ...
Pi Alpha Phi: ΠΑΦ: 1929 National NAPA: Asian American Πι Αλφα Φι: Inactive Pi Delta Psi: ΠΔΨ: 1994 National NAPA: Asian Active Pi Kappa Alpha: ΠΚΑ: 1868 International NIC: Traditional φφκα: Active Pi Kappa Phi: ΠΚΦ: 1904 National NIC: Traditional ΟΥΔΕΝ ΔΙΑΣΠΑΣΕΙ ΗΜΑΣ (Nothing shall tear us asunder ...
Joint statements between Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia have affirmed this since at least 1973, [78] and have been reaffirmed as recently as 2005, when the organizations released a joint statement saying, "there are equally important roles for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma to fulfill on ...
Kappa Alpha Psi was later included in March 1949. [53] [54] In 1939, Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first sorority to apply for life membership in the NAACP. [55] On September 1, 1945, Alpha Kappa Alpha established The National Health Office in New York City. [44]