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The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is an umbrella organization for nine historically black, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities.
[edit] History of the Black college Greek movement
The first successful attempt in founding a collegiate Black Greek letter organization (BGLO) by African Americans was accomplished in 1906 by 7 college students (Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity) on the predominantly white college campus of Cornell University.[1] Alpha Phi Alpha is also the first Greek letter organization established at a historically black college in 1907 at Howard University. Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in 1908 at Howard as the first among African-American sororities and among BGLOs founded at a black college.[2]
BGLOs may have begun in the year 1903 on the Indiana University Bloomington campus, but there were too few registrants to assure continuing organization. In that year a club was formed called Alpha Kappa Nu Greek Club to "strengthen the black's voice", but the club disappeared after a short time. There is no record of any similar organization at Indiana University until Kappa Alpha Nu (now Kappa Alpha Psi) was issued a charter in 1911.[3] Two of the founders of Kappa Alpha Psi had prior interaction with Alpha Phi Alpha and its Beta chapter while students at Howard University before transferring to Indiana University.[4]
The other BGLOs to come in succession with four additional being founded at Howard University, namely, Omega Psi Phi (1911), Delta Sigma Theta (1913), Phi Beta Sigma (1914) and Zeta Phi Beta (1920). Sigma Gamma Rho (1922) and Iota Phi Theta (1963) were founded at Butler University and Morgan State University respectively.[5]
1940 was a milestone year for BGLOs as Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, and Kappa Alpha Psi hosted conventions in the Municipal Auditorium of Kansas City, Missouri and participated in a historic joint session."[6]
Alpha Phi Alpha holds the historic position as the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for people of African descent.
- ΑΚΑ - Alpha Kappa Alpha, "AKAs" - intercollegiate sorority founded for African-American women on January 15, 1908 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
- ΑΦΑ - Alpha Phi Alpha - "Alphas" oldest intercollegiate fraternity founded for African-American men on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
- ΔΣΘ- Delta Sigma Theta, "Deltas or DST" - historically African-American sorority
- ΙΦΘ - Iota Phi Theta, "Iotas" - historically African-American fraternity
- ΚΑΨ - Kappa Alpha Psi, "Kappas or Nupes" - first historically African-American fraternity to become national body
- ΩΨΦ - Omega Psi Phi, "Omegas or Que's" - first historically African-American fraternity to be founded on a HBCU
- ΦΒΣ - Phi Beta Sigma, "Sigmas" - Historically African-American fraternity
- ΣΓΡ - Sigma Gamma Rho, "SGRhos" - First and only historically African-American sorority of the NPHC to be founded on a predominately white college campus at Butler University
- ΖΦΒ - Zeta Phi Beta, "Zetas" - historically African-American sorority
