Our Founders
The Founders were God-fearing and serious–minded young men with the imagination, ambition, courage, and determination to defy custom in pursuit of a college education and career. The ideals of the church were an important foundation of the fraternity. One of the 5 Objectives of the fraternity is: “To promote the spiritual, social, intellectual and moral welfare of members.” Many aspects of the fraternity’s rites are engrained in Christian ideals and contain excerpts from the Bible. — sited from: https://www.kappaalphapsi1911.com/history/
#115 years of service and ACHIEVEMENT in every field of human endeavor.
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Elder Watson Diggs
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Byron Kenneth Armstrong
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Guy Levis Grant
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Marcus Peter Blakemore
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Ezra Dee Alexander
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John Milton Lee
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Henry Tourner Asher
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Edward Giles Irvin
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George Wesley Edmonds
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Paul Waymond Caine
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Kappa Alpha Psi®, a college fraternity, was born in an environment saturated with racism. The state of Indiana became the 19th state of the Union in 1816, and it founded Indiana University in Bloomington four years later. This city was largely populated by settlers from below the Mason-Dixon line and, therefore, found many sympathizers of the Southern cause. Consequently, the few Blacks who took up residence in Bloomington in those early years were socially ostracized and encountered extreme acts of prejudice and discrimination. Click below to learn more about the history and story of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.