The Divine Nine refers to the historically Black fraternities and sororities also referred to as Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLOs).

Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in front of the Alpha Chapter house during the North Central Province regional meeting.

Members of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in front of the Alpha Chapter house during the North Central Province regional meeting.

Our founder's maternal grandfather Rev. G.C. Hawley, is on the second row, second from right.

Civil Rights activist Jesse Jackson can be found sixth from the left in the top row.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Members, 1950's.
Bethune-Cookman University

Photographer: Glover's Studio, 608 Second Avenue, Daytona Beach, Florida.

Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Chapter at Wilberforce University, 1922.

Source: Wilberforce Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority , 1922, Wilberforce University.

Source: Wilberforce Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division

Zeta Phi Beta
Shaw University.
Shaw Bears 1959 yearbook

A meeting of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University in 1946.

Source: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE Picture Collection.

Alpha Phi Alpha, Shaw University.

Shaw Bears 1959 yearbook.

The Scrollers Club of the Alpha Nu Chapter Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity

Phi Beta Sigma and The Crescent Club, Shaw University.

1959 Shaw Bear Yearbook.

1953- Marian Anderson and members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority receiving an award at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Alpha Chi chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 1949.

Chapter dating back to its chartering in January 1924.

Julia B. Purnell, (far right) poses with other members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority May 16, 1964 before they head to Capitol Hill to lobby for passage for an unamended civil rights bill.

The Pan-Hellenic Council is composed of two representatives from each Greek organization.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity dressed in tuxedoes and prepared for a ball on campus.

For the first time in it's 97 year history, a sorority has been chartered on Spelman College campus.

Elizabeth City State (NC) Panhellenic Council 1964.

SCROLLERS - Kappa Alpha Psi
1935 Saint Augustine College

ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY
Shaw University.

Image source: Shaw Bears 1963 Yearbook.

ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, NU CHAPTER. Lincoln University. 1930.

1950 Portrait of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity members at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Pledges from the Zeta Phi Beta sorority gather together at the gymnasium to perform during one of their pledge rituals at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1969.

Photo source: Robert Abbott Sengstacke-Getty Images.

A group photo of the Howard University Delta Sigma Theta founders, 1913. Courtesy of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Howard University.

PHI BETA SIGMA FRATERNITY, MU CHAPTER, Lincoln University, 1930.

The Pyramid Club of Delta Sigma Theta 1944.

KAPPA ALPHA PSI FRATERNITY, Lincoln University, 1935.

Bennett College For Women 1975 Yearbook. Source: UNC Digital Library.

Delta Sigma Theta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at North Carolina Central University in 1939.

Source: NCCU yearbook archive.

Shaw University, 1959 Shaw Bear Yearbook.

1950 Members of Omega Psi Phi on campus with students at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers at Alabama State College in Montgomery, Alabama.
Ca. 1950-1959

Pictured: The first six Morehouse College students initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha via Alpha Rho Chapter are featured on the top row, followed by the six men who joined in the fall of the Charter year.

Ivy Leaf pledge club, Gamma Mu chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated , Alabama A&M University 1961.

Source: A&M Archives.

Delta Sigma Theta probates, or sorority sisters who have not reached full status with the sorority.

Fraternity pledges for Omega Psi Phi practice their stepping routine in the Fisk University gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee, 1969.

Photo source: Robert Abbott Sengstacke-GettyImages.

AKA-Spring 1983 -Leslie B. Nesbitt on Right.

In recognition of the 98th anniversary of the chartering of Alpha Rho Chapter at Morehouse College, we are releasing the latest, and clearly the most significant update to the timeline since the Alpha Rho International Census (APIC) was completed in 2014.