An Introduction To Greekdom
I was first introduced to the black greek system by my cousins, both of whom are members of my fraternity. I remember being about 7 or 8 years old and one of my cousins had just finished pledging. He had a paddle in the corner of his room with all of his information on it (date and time of initiation, name of his line, his number, etc.) and I thought it looked like a cool toy so I picked it up and started swinging it around like a baseball bat. My cousin walked into the room and immediately snatched the paddle out of my hand and threw me on the bed and very sternly told me that I could not touch that paddle until I earned the right to touch it. I went crying to my mother and she had no ...
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from the French word for "brotherhood," it is a concept that can be traced to as far back to the building of the pyramids of Giza, when the ancient stone masons formed their own groups to provide a system of support among their own groups.
In the early 1700's, the notion of a fraternity took on a different turn, with the re-emergence of the Freemasons. The Freemason's were on the verge of extinction when four lodges from the area around London, England helped to revitalize Masonry into what it is now. Ever since then, Mason's have played an important (if not sometimes negative) role in both the American and British societies.
In the late 1700's, the first greek letter organization arose, Phi Beta Kappa, and started a trend that has lasted to this very day. Even though it would eventually abandon it's secretive nature, other greek-letter organizations begin popping up like wildfire.
Hence, in 1904, Sigma Pi Phi became the first black fraternity. However, it was not created ...
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1920;
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1922
( In November of 1996, Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., a fraternity founded at Morgan State University in 1963 was admitted into the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Therefore, what was once referred to as the "Elite Eight" is now kindly referred to as the "Notorius Nine". There is a very impressive site called Brothers and Sisters , a site devoted totally to Black Greek Organizations where you can learn more about this fraternity and other black greek lettered organizations.)
Since the inception of these organizations, they have been called everything from elitist to barbarians to preppie snobs. It ...
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