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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 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]
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.
The fraternity's badge is diamond shaped and features a raised black scroll with the Greek letters ΚΑΨ. [4] [5] The fraternity's colors are crimson and cream. [5] Its flower is the red carnation. Its motto is "Achievement in Every Field of Human Endeavor". The Kappa Alpha Psi Journal has been the official magazine of the fraternity since 1914.
Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is an international historically Black fraternity.Founded on January 9, 1914, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., Phi Beta Sigma has chartered chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek-letters.
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]
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. (ΦΒΣ) is a historically African American fraternity.It was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students with nine other Howard students as charter members.