Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was organized on November 12, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by seven young educators: Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, and Cubena McClure. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority [...]

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded on November 17, 1911 at Howard University located in Washington, D.C. by three undergraduates: Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper, Frank Coleman, and faculty adviser Ernest Everett Just. From the initials of the Greek phrase meaning "friendship is essential to the soul” the name Omega Psi Phi was derived, [...]

On December 4, 1906 Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the “Jewels” of the Fraternity, [...]