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050 00 $aLJ 31$bB76 2012
245 00 $aAfrican American Fraternities and Sororities :$bthe legacy and the vision. /$cEdited by Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks, and Clarenda M. Phillips.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aLexington, Kentucky :$bUniversity Press of Kentucky,$c2012.
300 $a525 p. :$c24 cm.
505 0 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Pledged to Remember; 2. The Origin and Evolution of College Fraternities and Sororities; 3. Faith and Fraternalism; 4. Black Fraternal and Benevolent Societies in Nineteenth-Century America; 5. The Grand Boule at the Dawn of a New Century; 6. Education, Racial Uplift, and the Rise of the Greek-Letter Tradition; 7. In the Beginning; 8. Lobbying Congress for Civil Rights; 9. Academic Achievement of African American Fraternities and Sororities; 10. Lucy Diggs Slowe; 11. A Social History of Everyday Practice; Illustrations;
505 0 $a12. Sister Acts13. The Body Art of Brotherhood; 14. Calls; 15. Variegated Roots; 16. What a Man; 17. Racism, Sexism, and Aggression; 18. The Empty Space of African American Sorority Representation; 19. "Bloody, but Unbowed"; 20. The Continuing Presence of Hazing during the Fraternity Membership Intake Process Post 1990; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
520 $aThe first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence that endures on today's campuses, African American fraternities and sororities claim legendary artists, politicians, theologians, inventors, intellectuals, educators, civil rights leaders, and athletes in their ranks. In this second edition of African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Lega.
650 0 $aGreek letter societies$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican American college students$xSocieties, etc.$xHistory.
700 1 $aBrown, Tamara L.
700 1 $aParks, Gregory S.
700 1 $aPhillips, Clarenda M.
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