was founded on November 12, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by seven young educators: Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, and Cubena McClure. The organization became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was gran
ted to the Alpha chapter at Butler University.
“Greater Service, Greater Progress” became the slogan and call of the organization that made November 12, 1922, a significant date in the history of the Black Greek system. This date would mark the establishment of the first sorority of Black women on a predominantly white campus, Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
