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Kappa Alpha Psi. 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 African heritage.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. ( ΑΚΑ) is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. [ 3] The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle. Forming a sorority broke barriers for African American ...
Kappa Alpha Order (ΚΑ), commonly known as Kappa Alpha, KA, or simply The Order, is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. As of December 2015, the Kappa Alpha Order lists 133 active chapters, five provisional chapters, and 52 suspended chapters. [ 2 ]
The Kappa Alpha Society (ΚΑ), founded in 1825, was the progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America.It is considered to be the oldest national, secret, Greek-letter social fraternity and was the first of the fraternities which would eventually become known as the Union Triad that pioneered the North American system of social fraternities.
Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek letter sorority for African American college students. [1] It was founded at Howard University in 1908. [1] In the following list of chapters, active chapters are indicated in bold and inactive chapters and institutions are in italics. [2] [3] [1]
Chapters of Alpha Kappa Psi are given names consisting of either one or two Greek letters. The names are issued in order according to the dates on which the chapters are chartered. Alpha is the name given to the founding chapter at New York University, followed by Beta at the University of Denver for the second chapter, then Gamma, and so on ...
List of Kappa Alpha Order chapters. Kappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington and Lee University. [ 1] Chapter names were often reused in the early decades of the fraternity, and the final successor group normally goes by the shortened name, for example Mu chapter at Tulsa is the fourth to ...
Died. April 8, 1975 (age 89) Washington, D.C., U.S. Beulah Elizabeth Burke [1] (1885–1975), was, along with her sister, Lillie, one of the nine original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 1908, the first sorority founded by African-American women. In her leadership as an educator and civic activist, Burke created important social capital.