TIMELINE: ROLL CALL OF CHAPTERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY
Alumni chapters of Kappa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Oklahoma (OK), Philadelphia (PA) and Pittsburgh (PA). — Sigma Gamma Rho Soror- ity is founded at Butler University.
Π Ρ The Morehouse College Chapter, the Pi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Washburn Univer- sity Chapter, the Rho of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered.
1917 The Northwestern Uni- versity Chapter, the Theta of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The U.S. Supreme Court in Buchanan v. Warley, rules that a ban on selling property in majority- White neighborhoods to Black people and vice versa violates the Four- teenth Amendment.
1920 The Temple University Chapter, the Lambda of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The University of Kansas Chapter, the Mu of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Indianapolis Uni- versity Chapter, the Nu of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Howard University Chapter the Xi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Alumni chapters of Kappa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Detroit (MI), Indianapolis (IN), Cleve- land (OH) and Louisville (KY). — Zeta Phi Beta Sorority is founded at Howard University. — The NAACP adopts Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing as the “Negro National Anthem.”
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1923
1918
Dr. George F. David II becomes the 3 rd Grand Polemarch and served from 1921-1922. — Alumni chapters of Kappa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Columbus (OH), St. Louis (MO) Baltimore (MD) and Durham (NC).
Υ Τ W. Ellis Stewart becomes the 4 th Grand Polemarch and served from 1923-1924. — The West Virginia Chap- ter, the Tau of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles Chapter, the Upsilon of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Φ Χ 1924 The Cincinnati (OH)and Kansas City (MO) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi are chartered. — The Rosewood Massacre occurs in Florida. The University of Buffalo Chapter, the Phi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Boston University Chapter, the Chi of Kap- pa Alpha Psi is chartered.
Ι The University of Chi- cago Chapter, the Iota of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. Κ 1919 The Meharry Medical College Chapter, the Kappa of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Chicago (IL) Chapter is chartered. — Political unrest began receiving wide coverage in several major cities. Irven Armstrong becomes the 2 nd Grand Polemarch and served from 1918- 1920. —
The Black Wall Street Massacre (also known as the Tulsa Race Riot) in Greenwood, Tulsa, OK claims as many as 300 lives and destroyed 35 blocks of Black-owned homes and businesses.
1921
William Grant Still (Delta 1915) begins recording with orchestras in Harlem. — The Columbia University Chapter, the Omicron of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered.
1922
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The University of Michi- gan Chapter, the Sigma of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered.
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