TIMELINE: ROLL CALL OF CHAPTERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY
∆Υ The Wichita State Uni- versity Chapter, the Delta Upsilon of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Indiana Institute of Technology Chapter, the Delta Phi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Alumni Chapters of Kap- pa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Florence (SC), South Bend (IN), Poughkeepsie (NY) and Tuscaloosa (AL). — Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL is bombed by the KKK, killing four girls.
∆Ρ The San Jose State Uni- versity Chapter, the Delta Rho of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. ∆Π The Michigan State Uni- versity Chapter, the Delta Pi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — ∆Ο ∆Ξ 1956 The Albany State Univer- sity Chapter, the Delta Xi of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The University of Arizona Chapter, the Delta Omi- cron of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Caro- lina and Virginia agree to block integration of schools. — The policy of Massive Resistance is declared by a sitting U.S. Senator, followed by the Southern Manifesto supported by the entire congressional delegations of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisi- ana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. — In Browder v. Gayle the Court strikes down Alabama laws requiring segregation of buses. — Federal marshals are re- quired in Montgomery to enforce the ruling.
∆Σ The Bishop College Chapter, the Delta Sigma* of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Alumni Chapters of Kappa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Dover (DE), Grambling (LA), Martinsville (VA), New Haven (CT), Wewo- ka (OK) and Williamson (WV).
Alumni Chapters of Kap- pa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Amarillo (TX) and Fayetteville Fort Bragg Pope AFB (NC). — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed naming Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as chairman. The state senates of Georgia and Florida declare the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and deseg- regation decisions respec- tively "null and void." — The Civil Rights Act of 1957 is signed by Presi- dent Eisenhower. — When Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, Ghana's Fi- nance Minister, is refused service at a Dover, Del., restaurant, President Eisenhower hosts him for breakfast at the White House and apologizes. — Florida and Texas vote to close any school where federal troops are sent to enforce integration. — The Little Rock Central High School is integrated with the federal and na- tional guard escorting the Little Rock Nine. 1958 NAACP v. Alabama holds NAACP can function in state without releasing membership lists. —
William F. "Bill" Russell (Gamma Alpha 1955) wins a gold medal in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.
In Cooper v. Aaron , the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that states are bound by the Court's decisions. — States actively resist U.S. Supreme Court rulings. 1959 Alumni Chapters of Kap- pa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Evanston (IL) and San Bernardino (CA).
∆Τ 1957 The Miles College Chapter, the Delta Tau of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Robert "Bobby" Grier (Beta Epsilon 1957) breaks the color barrier with his at the 1956 Sugar Bowl. He was elected to the Sugar Bowl Hall of Fame in 2019.
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