Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2344-8. Parks, Gregory Scott (2008). Black Greek-Letter Organizations in the 21st Century: Our Fight Has Just Begun. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-2491-9.
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 Phi Alpha is the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students. [2] Convened in December 1905 as a literary society with the first presiding officer being CC Poindexter , it was established as a fraternity on December 4, 1906, at Ithaca, New York .
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]
Board of Education (1954) decision and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56), and amid the growing student movement, the four Black collegiate sororities teamed up to reorganize the American ...
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. (ΙΦΘ) is a historically African American fraternity.It was founded on September 19, 1963, at Morgan State University (then Morgan State College) in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth largest Black Greek Lettered Fraternity. [1]
Rapper Boosie BadAzz has also faced online backlash for wearing Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., paraphernalia and apologized in 2020 after he posted pictures in the fraternity’s t-shirt ...
Ronald Gilkes and Robert Coates established Nu Gamma Alpha in 1962 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It was a "quasi-serious" fraternity modeled after established Black Greek-letter organizations. [4] Its charter members came from Howard and American University, including: [3]