The Divine Nine refers to the historically Black fraternities and sororities also referred to as Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs).

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Washington D. C., Sorority members photographed

Julia B. Purnell, (far right) poses with other members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority May 16, 1964 before they head to Capitol Hill to lobby for passage for an unamended civil rights bill.

Gamma Mu chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leslie B. Nesbitt on Right.

1975 Yearbook

Delta Sigma Theta probates, or sorority sisters who have not reached full status with the sorority.

Photographer: Glover's Studio, 608 Second Avenue, Daytona Beach, Florida.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity dressed in tuxedoes and prepared for a ball on campus.

1950

1950

1933 - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, inc. 1933 / Myra Hemings, Founder - Former AKA President - last Pres. Delta Sigma Theta / Mary Lou Regional Director / Henrietta Wells Secy - Tres. Southeast Region - Delegate from Alpha Theata- / Wiley College].

1953, Elizabeth City, NC

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Fraternity pledges for Omega Psi Phi practice their stepping routine in the Fisk University gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee, 1969.

Photo source: Robert Abbott Sengstacke-GettyImages.

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(l-r) Ethel Jones Mowbray, Norma Boyd, Alice Murray, Joanna Berry Shields (with hat), Sarah Meriweather Nutter (center), Carrie Snowden, and Harriet Terry, ca.

W. E. B. Du Bois (light colored suit) with his brothers of Beta, .

Image: A group photo of the Howard University Delta Sigma Theta founders, 1913. Courtesy of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Howard University.

Front Row: Winona Cargile Alexander, Madree Penn White, Wertie Blackwell Weaver, Vashti Turley Murphy, Ethel Cuff Black, Fredericka Chase Dodd
Middle Row: Pauline Orberdorfer Minor, Edna Brown Coleman, Edith Mott Young, Marguerite Young Alexander, Naomi Sewell Richardson
Last Row: Myra Davis Hemmings, Mamie Reddy Rose, Bertha Pitts Campbell, Florence Letcher Toms, Olive Jones, Jessie McGwire Dent, Jimmie Bugg Middleton, Ethel Carr Watson.
Not Pictured: Eliza Pearl Shippen, Osceola Macarthy Adams, Zephyr Chisom Carter.

AKA was established in 1908 (at Howard University) and is recognized as America’s first African American Greek-letter (sorority) society.

Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in front of the Alpha Chapter house during the North Central Province regional meeting.

Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in front of the Alpha Chapter house during the North Central Province regional meeting.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

1930.

One of our museum's co-founder's maternal grandfather, Rev. G.C. Hawley, is on the second row, second from right.

Chaptered January 1924.

Pictured: The de-coded Chapter picture featured in the 1925 "Tiger: Second Edition" Morehouse College yearbook is comprised of Charter Members and initiates from Spring 1924, Fall 1924 and Spring 1925.

Pictured: The first six Morehouse College students initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha via Alpha Rho Chapter are featured on the top row, followed by the six men who joined in the fall of the Charter year.

Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, NC

Members pose on the steps of the Dudley Memorial Building on the campus. Greensboro, NC.

Durham, NC 1949.

The Pyramid Club of Delta Sigma Theta 1944.

Durham, NC

On April 22 and April 23, 1938, the Wilmington, NC-based Omicron Alpha Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity hosted the group’s sixth district conference.

Paul Quinn is now in Dallas.

1953- Marian Anderson and members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority receiving an award

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1959

Shaw Bears 1959 yearbook.

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The Pan-Hellenic Council is composed of two representatives from each Greek organization.

For the first time in it's 97 year history, a sorority has been chartered on Spelman College campus.

Regional meetings

Top row: unknown, unknown, unknown, Dr. Lawrence P. Diffay, Taylor Thomas;
Middle row: Robert Norwood, unknown, unknown, unknown;
Bottom row: all unknown.

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