William Cumby, Jun 30, 2011
Beta Sigma - Southern University National Step Show
Champions!!!!! (2002)
Edited by Azizi Powell
This pancocojams post showcases seven YouTube videos of stepping performances by members of Beta Sigma chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. These YouTube video performances are from
2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2019, & 2024.
The content of these videos are presented for historical, cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.
I'm particularly interested in showing the ways that stepping has changed or remained the same in this chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. I am also interested in documenting that body patting (body percussion) is an important element of these stepping performances.
All copyrights remain with their owners.
Thanks to all past and present members of the Beta Sigma chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Thanks to all those who are featured in these showcased videos and thanks to all the publisher of these videos on YouTube.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_University
"Southern University and A&M College (Southern
University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant
university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest
historically black college or university (HBCU) in Louisiana..."...
From
"Alpha Phi Alpha is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved into a fraternity with a founding date of December 4, 1906"...
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Click the Alpha Phi Alpha tag below for more pancocojams posts about this fraternity.
From https://frostbite13.tripod.com/BShist.html
..."Beta Sigma is the only chapter in the history of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. to win
[...]
The history and legacy of the 61st chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha and one of the oldest chapters in the state of Louisiana is one that begins with the hard work and intense drive of the charter members. The interested men of Southern University, at that time, had many hurdles to overcome in order to bring Alpha Phi Alpha to the deeply racist south, but more importantly, to the deepest and most racist state in the south. During that time the granting of charters was a complicated process...
This is why the introduction of Beta Sigma chapter to Southern University was so important, not
only to Alpha Phi Alpha, but to the campus of Southern University. It showed the nation that Southern was not
only one of the premier colleges in the south, but in the nation and a bastion
of black academia.
These 10 visionary young men were:
James P. Christy
George A. Davis
John D. Davis
Henry A. Dumouil
Charles C. Guthrie
James S. Peters (last living charter member)
Othneil R. Thompson
Hugh J. Thornton
Edgar T. Thornton
Earl L. Walters
On December 11, 1936, in a ceremony conducted by Brother H.B. Evans, the hard work paid off and their dreams came to be when these men chartered the Beta Sigma chapter at Southern University."...
****ADDITIONAL SHOWCASE VIDEOS
Except for showcase video #1, these videos are presented in chronological order based on their publishing date, with the oldest videos given first. Numbers are added for referencing purposes only.
SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Southern's Homecoming 2006 Beta Sigma Alpha Phi Alpha
neworleanscity, Nov 5, 2006
****SHOWCASE VIDEO #3- Beta Sigma chapter Alpha Phi Alpha
Thomas Thompson, Apr 9, 2007
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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 -SU Homecoming Stepshow 08 Alpha PHI Alpha
neworleanscity, Oct 14, 2008
SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 - Beta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Homecoming 2012 Greek Show
Human Jukebox Media, Oct 13, 2012
Southern University Homecoming 2012 Greek Show. Sorority's
First Place Deltas, Second Place AKA's. Fraternity's First Place Alpha's,
Second Place Kappa's
SHOWCASE VIDEO #6 - Alpha Phi Alpha | Beta Sigma Chapter | Yard Show Fall 2019
Marvin Price, Oct 23, 2019
Beta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
SHOWCASE VIDEO #7 - Alpha Phi Alpha | Beta Sigma Chapter | Homecoming Step Show 2024
Marvin Price, Oct 20, 2024
Homecoming Step Show 2024
Southern University and A&M College
Videographers: Marvin Price and Quinton Collins
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