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Alpha Phi Alpha
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/apa1906/
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the first historically black Greek-lettered
organization. It was founded at Cornell University on December 4, 1906. Nationally,
the fraternity promotes community service, scholarship, brotherhood, and love for
all humankind. The Alpha Phi Alpha chapter at UCSB was founded in 1976.
 
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University on January 5, 1911.
The Fraternity's fundamental purpose is achievement. Early in this century, African-American
students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were
erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular
campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing
Elder W. Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, and eight other black students to form Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity, which remains the only Greek letter organization with its
1st Chapter on the University's campus.
 
Gamma Zeta Alpha
Nine men who felt a need to provide more options for Latino men to choose from founded
the Kappa Chapter of Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity, Inc. on June 11, 2000 at UC Santa
Barbara. Because there is a need for visibility of the Latino culture and heritage,
these men felt that the establishment of this fraternity would serve as an outlet
for Latino men to connect with. The Kappa chapter at UCSB recognizes and upholds
the original principles that this fraternity was founded upon, which are academic
excellence, community service, and the maintenance of the Latino culture.
  
Delta Sigma Theta
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/dst/
Twenty-two women created Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., an organization of college
women committed to serious endeavors and community service, at Howard University
in 1913. The basic and continuing thread of the organization's public service program
is its Five-Point Project focusing on educational, economic, community, international,
and housing and urban development.. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. has over 175,000
members and 700 chapters worldwide.
Zeta Phi Beta
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority was founded January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University
in Washington, D.C. by five coeds. These women dared to depart from the traditional
coalitions for Black women and sought to establish a new organization predicated
on the precepts of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood and Finer Womanhood. The trail blazed by the founders has been traversed by thousands of women dedicated to the emulation of the objectives and ideals of the Sorority.
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