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In an attempt to eliminate Hazing from these organizations, each revised its orientation procedures and developed the Membership Intake Process. In 2012, then Phi Beta Sigma International President Jimmy Hammock, along with the National Action Network, led by Sigma member Al Sharpton, launched a coalition whose aim was to combat hazing culture ...
The Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) is a voluntary association of national collegiate and post-graduate honor societies.It was established on December 30, 1925 by six organizations, including Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
On January 25, 1948, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, Sigma Gamma Rho sororities, and Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Sigma fraternities were charter members of the ACHR. [52] Kappa Alpha Psi was later included in March 1949. [53] [54] In 1939, Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first sorority to apply for life membership in the NAACP. [55]
Alpha Kappa Alpha members can join the organization either as an undergraduate student or become a part of a graduate chapter if they’ve already earned a bachelor’s or an advanced degree from ...
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. The fraternity's expansion started with its second (Beta) and third ...
The council's membership expanded as Alpha Phi Alpha (1931), Phi Beta Sigma (1931), Sigma Gamma Rho (1937), and Iota Phi Theta (1996) later joined. [5] In his book on BGLOs, The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America (2001), Lawrence Ross coined the phrase "The Divine Nine" when referring to the ...
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
Phi Beta Sigma founders: A. Langston Taylor, (first row, center), Leonard F. Morse (first row; third from right) and Charles I. Brown (first row; third from left) with charter members of Phi Beta Sigma; Alpha Chapter in 1914. A. Langston Taylor, Esq. (January 29, 1890 - August 8, 1953) was the first international president of Phi Beta Sigma.