Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post presents hyperlinks to all of the pancocojams posts as of this date that specifically showcase Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ority, Inc. was founded in 1911 at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Links to additional posts about Kappa Alph Psi Fraternity, Inc. will be added when they are published on this pancocojams blog.
This post also presents information about Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity, Inc. from that organization's official website.
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Thanks to the Founders of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc, and thanks to all past and present members of that historically Black Greek letter organization.
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Additional information, videos, and chant/songs examples of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc can be found in general pancocojams posts about historically Black Greek letter organizations (BGLOs) that are members of Divine Nine. Click the tags found below for links to those pancocojams posts.
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INFORMATION ABOUT KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC
From https://kappaalphapsi1911.com/page/History
"Kappa Alpha Psi®, a college Fraternity, was born in an environment saturated in racism. The state of Indiana became the 19th state of the Union in 1816 and it founded Indiana University in Bloomington four years later. This city was largely populated by settlers from below the Mason-Dixon line and therefore found many sympathizers of the Southern cause. Consequently, the few Blacks who took up residence in Bloomington in those early years were socially ostracized and encountered extreme acts of prejudice and discrimination. The state of Indiana became a stronghold for the Ku Klux Klan. Their intolerance toward Blacks fueled the negative mindset of other Whites residing there. Vigilante lynchings of Blacks were commonplace. This environment made day-to-day life for Blacks an arduous task and attempts to successfully achieve in school, nearly impossible. Despite the growing hostility of Whites toward Blacks in Indiana, some Black students sought a college education at Indiana University, as it was a tuition-free university of the highest quality. However, few Blacks could remain longer than a year or so without having to withdraw in search of employment.
The campus of Indiana University at that time did not encourage the assimilation of Blacks. The administration maintained an attitude of indifference, as Blacks slowly matriculated and were likewise swiftly forgotten. The percentage of Blacks on campus was less than 1%. Blacks could go weeks without seeing one another on campus. Blacks were not allowed to reside in on-campus dormitories, were not afforded off-campus accommodations, and they were also denied the use of all other university facilities, and were barred from participating in contact sports. Track and Field was the only sport which Blacks were able to demonstrate their athleticism.
In the school years of 1910-11, a small group of Black students attended Indiana University.
Most of them were working their way through school. The number of places where they might assemble was limited. Realizing that they had no part in the social life of the university and drawn together by common interests, they decided that a Greek-letter fraternity would do much to fill the missing link in their college existence.
Two of these men, Elder Watson Diggs and Byron Kenneth Armstrong, had previously attended Howard University and had come into contact with men belonging to the only national Black Greek-Letter Fraternity currently in existence. Their experiences at Howard gave rise to the chief motivating spirits which sowed of the seed for a fraternity at Indiana University and crystallized the idea of establishing an independent Greek-letter organization.
Consequently, eight other men met with Diggs and Armstrong for the purpose of organizing such a fraternity.
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On January 5, 1911, the Fraternity then became known as Kappa Alpha Nu, possibly as a tribute to the Black students of 1903 (the Alpha Kappa Nu Greek Society) who preceded them at Indiana University. These men of vision decided Kappa Alpha Nu would be more than another social organization.
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Born out of the vestiges of racism, Kappa Alpha Nu encountered another metamorphosis, partially related to action of bigotry. One day as one of the Fraternity members, Frank Summers, was running the hurdles, Founder Diggs overheard a White student state, “He is a member of Kappa Alpha Nig”.There was an additional misunderstanding being attributed to the acronym of the Fraternity’s Greek letters, KAN. Some confused the abbreviation of the letters to refer to the state of Kansas. The name of Fraternity and the image it portrayed was of paramount importance. These incidents caused the Founders to change the name of the Fraternity. The Greek Letter Ψ was chosen in place of N and the Fraternity acquired a distinctive Greek letter symbol and Kappa Alpha Psi ®thereby became an indistinguishable Greek-letter Fraternity. The name was officially changed to Kappa Alpha Psi on a resolution adopted at the Grand Chapter Meeting in December 1914. This change became effective April 15, 1915."...
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HYPERLINKS TO PANCOCOJAMS POSTS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, INC.
Lou Rawl's Song "Memory Lane" & Kappa Alpha
Psi Fraternity Song "Hand Me Down My Kappa Kane"
http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/08/lou-rawls-song-memory-lane-kappa-alpha.html
August 7, 2016
Information About Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc's History Of Stepping With Kanes & Videos Of Kappa Kane Masters
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