You're too stupid to learn and you don't belong here!
This was life for a black person in Indiana in 1922. The Klu Klux Klan was at it's MOST powerful. Black people were scared to demand their rights... voting, education, free speech.
In the middle off this, Seven black women decided to embark on a journey. These highly educated teachers were blessed with the understanding of the importance of a good education. Sigma Gamma Rho became the first (and only) sorority to originate on the campus of an predominately white university. These women, Mary Lou Allison Little, Dorothy Hanely Whiteside, Vivian White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, Bessie M Downie Martin and Cubena McClure, decided that they would give to the African American Community what it needed the most.....EDUCATION.
They fought to educate a community that was afraid to be educated. They did this with the hopes that each of the educated would find it their duty to educate another. Thus was the premise of Sigma Gamma Rho.
Sigma Gamma Rho was organized on November 12, 1922. It became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to to Alpha chapter at Butler University.
For more details on the foundation of Sigma Gamma Rho, please refer to
the International Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc Webpage
SIGMA FACTS
* The sorority flower is the Yellow Tea Rose *
* The sorority mascot is the French Toy Poodle *
* The sorority colors are royal Blue and Gold *
*** We are the Original Female Cane Steppers ***
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