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The first sorority [outside the United States], Kappa Alpha Theta, was established in Toronto in 1887. By 1927 there were 42 fraternity and sorority chapters at the University of Toronto and 23 at McGill University.
Alpha Delta Pi would gain notoriety in 1851 as the first organization to be called a sorority. The terms sorority and women's fraternity have always since been interchangeable with some using one or the other in only formal or informal contexts. The social sororities were one of the few social outlets at most universities.
This page deals with the development of a coordinated system of college fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. These organizations coordinate their activities among themselves, through inter-organizational groups, like the National Interfraternity Conference, and at many colleges and universities through university administrative staff assigned to coordinate activities.
It was the first Greek-letter fraternity established for women. [1] [2] The organization has 147 chapters at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization was the first women's fraternity to establish a chapter in Canada. [3] Theta's total living initiated membership, as of 2020, was more than 250,000. [3]
First NPHC organization to be nationally incorporated. Omega Psi Phi: ΩΨΦ: Fraternity November 17, 1911 Howard University Decatur, Georgia: 750 1930 First fraternity to be founded at a historically black university. Delta Sigma Theta: ΔΣΘ: Sorority January 13, 1913 Howard University Washington, D.C. 1,060 [10] 350,000 [10] 1930
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 nine students led by Ethel Hedgemon Lyle.
While most of the traditional women's fraternities or sororities were founded decades before the start of the 20th century, the first ever specifically Christian-themed Greek letter organization formed was the Kappa Phi Club, founded in Kansas in 1916.
Margaret Flagg Holmes (September 6, 1886 – January 29, 1976) was one of the sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, at Howard University in Washington, DC. It was the first sorority founded by African-American women. She went on to earn a Master's in Philosophy at Columbia University in New York.