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The National Pan-Hellenic Council was established during the Jim Crow era when Greek letter collegiate organizations founded by white Americans did not want to be affiliated with Greek letter collegiate organizations founded by African Americans. [3] The organization's stated purpose and mission in 1930:
The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is an umbrella organization for 26 national and international women's sororities throughout the United States and Canada. Panhellenic (lit. ' all-Greek ') refers to the group's members being autonomous social Greek-letter societies of college women and alumnae.
Delta Delta Delta was founded by Sarah Ida Shaw, Eleanor Dorcas Pond, Florence Isabelle Stewart, and Isabel Morgan Breed at Boston University. [2] Three women's fraternities were already represented at Boston University (Kappa Kappa Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta, and Alpha Phi).
A factor in founding the sorority was to create one accepting of all races and religions, and they were the first non-sectarian social sorority to do so. [4] These five women, collectively called the DIMES by the Sorority as an abbreviation of their first names, wanted to "promote good fellowship among the women students among the various colleges in the country...to create a secret society ...
The name Seven Sisters is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: [1] Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. [2] These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges.
Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity (ΑΦ, also known as APhi) is an international sorority with 175 active chapters and over 270,000 initiated members. Founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1872, it was the fourth Greek-letter organization for women, and the first women's fraternity founded in the northeast.
This women's fraternity was founded by nine women on October 15, 1898, at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University) in Farmville, Virginia. ZTA is the third organization founded of the "Farmville Four". In order, these are: Kappa Delta (1897), Sigma Sigma Sigma (1898), Zeta Tau Alpha (1898), and Alpha Sigma Alpha (1901). [2] [3]
Sisterhood (feminism), solidarity between women in the context of sexual discrimination; Sister-hood, an online magazine edited by Deeyah Khan; Sisterhoods (Modern Anglican) Sisterhood F.C., London, England, UK; a women's soccer team; Sorority, a social organization for undergraduate students