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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated December 12, 2023
Like college, fraternities in the United States were originally founded for white male students. For years the elite networks excluded minorities, barring them from the socially lucrative opportunities that members enjoyed. So, as always, Black students created their own in answer to the pervasive racism they faced. On December 4, 1908, the first Black fraternity was created—Alpha Phi Alpha, and eight other organizations soon
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