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*Information from this section has been compiled from various sources & not verified by DG*
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AKA Founder Sarah Merriweather Nutter sent Founder Nellie Quander a piece of ivy from the grave of former President Grover Cleveland. This cutting was planted on the right side of the Manual Arts Building at Howard University
The original conceived idea of establishing a Panhellenic Council came in 1922 when the Omega Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma both were hosting thier National Convention in Atlanta at the same time. The two fraternities held a joint meeting and proposed that the established fraternities and sororities should work together more harmoniously. In this meeting both sides agreed to urge the other fraternities and sororities to join up. Because of this need for unity and this proposal from these two fraternities nine years later it became a reality. The official creation of the NPHC in 1930.
Bulter University SGRho's alpha chapter and University of Indiana (Kappa's alpha chapter) is less than fifty miles apart from one another.
Of the twenty-two women who organized DST sorority, two dated two of the founders of Omega Psi Phi. Delta Founder Edith Young dated Edgar Love and Frank Coleman dated and ultimately married Edna Brown.
Did you know that the
first African-American woman to win an Academy Award in
1939, was a member of
Sigma Gamma Rho? Her name was Hattie McDaniels and she played
Mammy in "Gone With The Wind."
There has been more members of Phi Beta Sigma serving as National President of the NPHC than any other NPHC fraternity or sorority.
There have been only one
couple to both serve as National Presidents of
their organizations: Dr. William Hale (20th General President of
Alpha Phi
Alpha) and Dr.
Larzette Golden Hale (17th Supreme Basileus of
Alpha Kappa
Alpha
Sorority) .
Harlem Renaissance Writer and Folklorist Zora Neale Hurston pledged Howard's Alpha Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority around 1925.
Myra Davis holds the distinction of being the only woman to serve as both Basileus of AKA and President of DST in 1912 and 1913 respectively.
Phi Beta Sigma & Zeta Phi Beta were the first and only constitutionally bonded Greek Fraternity/Sorority, brother/sister organization, sharing several of the same cardinal principles within each respective organization. Sigma & Zeta both share the same colors, creed, symbols from their shields, and the namesake of the PHI BETA, they are true originators of the terms "Frat" & "Soror".
The Founding date of Delta Sigma Theta was actually a deadline date, in which the AKA's gave the 22 founders of DST to stop their rebellion or face expulsion from the sorority. The 22 members declined to obey the orders and DST was established and founded.
Grace Coleman, sister of Omega founder Frank Coleman, was elected Delta's first president in 1914 at Howard Univesity. Grace also was one of the first initiates of the sorority.
Kappa Alpha Psi's application for incorporation was filed over the signatures of EZRA D. ALEXANDER, BYRON K. ARMSTRONG, HENRY T. ASHER, MARCUS P. BLAKEMORE, PAUL CAINE, ELDER WATSON DIGGS, GEORGE EDMUNDS, GUY L. GRANT, EDWARD G. IRVIN, JOHN M. LEE, AND FREDERICK MITCHELL (who is this guy?). Mitchell later withdrew from school and therefore never became a member. An issue of the Kappa Journal reported that Irven Armstrong (cousin to Kappa founder Bryon Armstrong) , would have been one of founding fathers if he had not had to work the night of January 5, 1911, the night the fathers signed their names to the great petition or scroll. He later became the second Grand Polemarch.
Although SGRho's were founded at Bulter in 1922, they were not the first black sorority established at Butler University. The AKA's had established a chapter two years before their founding in 1920.
Howard University
The first Black Fraternity establish at Howard University was Alpha Phi Alpha in 1907 Beta Chapter.
The First Black Fraternity Founded at Howard University was Omega Psi Phi in 1911
The First Black Fraternity to be recognized by Howard University as a fraternity was Phi Beta Sigma in April 1914. Omega's recognition came later the same year in November.
Although Kappa Alpha Psi was not founded at Howard University, two of their founders Byron K. Armstrong and Elder Watson Diggs attended Howard University in the 1909-1910 school year before transfering to the University of Indiana.
Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded and established in 1908 at Howard, but because of the uprising of 22 formal members known as the founders of Delta Sigma Theta, they were not able to established a second chapter (beta) until 1913 in Chicago five years later.
Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Lucy Diggs Slowe, became the first African-American Dean of Women at Howard University and held that post until she died in 1937. Charles Harris Wesley Alpha historian presided at her funeral, and Omega Founder Frank Coleman was a pallbearer.
In race to be the first sorority incorporated at Howard University, both Deltas and AKA's alpha chapters were incorporated on the same day. The AkA's papers were processed 20 minutes before the Deltas. DST was not incorporated as a national organization a (entire entity) until 1930.
Sigma Founder Leonard F Morse became the first male student at Howard University to earn 2 degrees and 2 diploma in three years of college.
December 28th- 29th 1916 Phi Beta Sigma held its 3rd annual convention at its Alpha Chapter House in Washington DC. One of its guest speakers were Omega Psi Phi 4th Grand Basileus George Hall, who was also a Masonic fraternity brother to Sigma Founder A. Langston Taylor.