The Ten Illustrious Founders gave birth to a great concept, the idea that if we are going to be brothers, let ther, let it be around something that is strong enough to hold us if we are going to sing, let us sing about something that will have a lasting refrain if we drink a toast, let it be of something beyond the trivial and the vulgar let us exalt the theme of achievement. T is no record of any similar organization at Indiana until the chartering of Kappa Alpha Nu, a forerunner of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated, in 1911. In that year, a club was formed called Alpha Kappa Nu with the purpose of strengthening the Blacks' voice at the University and in the city of Bloomington.
Black-sponsored Greek letter organizations on the Indiana University campus might well have begun in 1903, but t were too few registrants to assure continuing organization. To understand this is to understand the birth of college fraternities among Blacks.
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Their determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable social and economic odds is the source of inspiration to less than full privileged students at white institutions of higher learning throughout America. The accomplishments of these first Black students are all the more noteworthy because typically they worked their way through college. A Brief History The story of Kappa Alpha Psi is to a large extent the story of black students everyw, whether organized or not, who attended predominantly white colleges or universities in America prior to World War II.
The book is in good condition with a scratch on the cover. Since the fraternity's founding in 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin. KAΨ A History Of The Beginning And Development Of A College Greek Organization 1911-1961 Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) is the second-oldest collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership and the first black intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body.
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