African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the
Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black
Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic
Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and
secret societies, intercollegiate African American fraternities and
sororities have strong traditions of fostering brotherhood and
sisterhood among their members, exerting considerable influence in
the African American community, and being on the forefront of civic
action, community service, and philanthropy. Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., Toni Morrison, Arthur Ashe, Carol Moseley Braun, Bill Cosby,
Sarah Vaughan, George Washington Carver, Hattie McDaniel, and Bobby
Rush are among the many trailblazing members of these
organizations. The rolls of African American fraternities and
sororities serve as a veritable who's who among African American
leadership in the United States and abroad. African American
Fraternities and Sororities places the history of these
organizations in context, linking them to other movements and
organizations that predated them and tying their history to one of
the most important eras of United States history -- the Civil
Rights struggle. African American Fraternities and Sororities
explores various cultural aspects of these organizations such as
auxilliary groups, branding, calls, stepping, and the unique role
of African American sororities. It also explores such contemporary
issues as sexual aggression and alcohol use, college adjustment,
and pledging, and provides a critique of Spike Lee's film School
Daze, the only major motion picture to portray African American
fraternities and sororities as a central theme. The year 2006 will
mark the centennial anniversary of the intercollegiate African
American fraternity and sorority movement. Yet, to date, little
scholarly attention has been paid to these organizations and the
men and women who founded and perpetuated them. African American
Fraternities and Sororities reveals the vital social and political
functions of these organizations and places them within the history
of not only the African American community but the nation as a
whole.
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