Mrs. Gerst’s ‘A Moment in Black History’ :The Divine Nine

Greetings and welcome to Mrs Gerst a moment in black history today we’re going to talk about the divine nine in the early 19th century social Greek organizations known as sororities and fraternities began forming on college campuses across the United States to provide a sense of community and unique opportunities for students these

Organizations were often highly exclusive and barred membership to students of certain genders or races specifically black students the divine nine at the start of the 20th century a small number of black students came together for mainly historically black colleges and universities also known as hbcus to form their own sororities and

Fraternities these organizations are known collectively as the National panhellenic Council or the divine nine each of these organizations were established with unique core values but shared a common goal to educate and uplift the black community from racial inequities it is important to note that not every divine nine organization was

Founded on an HBCU although most were amplify Alpha Fraternity Incorporated found in 1906 on the campus of Cornell University Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority was founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University and HBCU Gap Alpha Psi Fraternity was founded in 1911 on the campus of Indiana University

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity was founded in 1911 on the campus of Howard University Delta Sigma Theta sorority was founded in 1913 on the campus of Howard University Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Incorporated was founded on 1914 in 1914 on the campus of Howard University Zeta Phi Beta sorority Incorporated my

Organization and the sister organization to Phi Beta Sigma fraternity Incorporated was founded in 1920 on the campus of Howard University sequin gamma row sorority Incorporated was founded in 1922 on the campus of Butler University and Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Incorporated was founded in 1963 on the campus of Morgan State University I want

To make a special note here that Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta sorority Incorporated are constitutionally bound which means that we are true brothers and sisters contributions to African-American history or to American history members of these sororities and fraternities were heavily involved and still are in

Several social justice movements such as the women’s suffrage civil rights movement and black lives matter these organizations have made significant strides to help unite black communities across the U.S and continue to collectively organize to serve various social causes not only do they look at service and exemplify service but these

Organizations also exemplify scholarship they exemplify earning college degrees and furthering yourself not only in college degrees but furthering yourself and setting goals these organizations do much for the community there are times where we organize together and there are times that we have our own goals but we always support one another in addition

To this we also have a little bit of fun I’m going to share with you just a short clip hey Love your life me Daniel bro we’re chilling on it yeah they say black college top of my life [Applause] Okay hey hey I hope you’ve learned something today have a wonderful day of teaching and learning

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