Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates. Sigma Gamma Rho has over 100,000 members with more than 500 undergraduate and alumnae chapters in the United States, Bermuda, The Bahamas, Canada, Germany, South Korea, U.S. The sorority's slogan is "Greater Service, Greater Progress". It was the second African- American sorority established at Butler University. Sigma Gamma Rho is the only sorority of the four historically African American National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities established at a predominantly White institution instead of at Howard University. The sorority was incorporated as a national collegiate sorority in 1930. The sorority became a national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to the Alpha chapter then established at Butler University that year. It was incorporated within Indiana in November 1922 as a sorority for school teachers and held their first national conference in 1925. At its inception, the sorority was created to support Black women pursuing degrees in education. The organization began to form as a club in 1920, by seven African American women in Indianapolis, Indiana. ( ΣΓΡ) is a historically African American sorority, international collegiate, and non-profit community service organization that was founded on November 12, 1922. SGRhos, Lady Sigmas, Sigma Women, Sigmas, Pretty Poodles
November 12, 1922 100 years ago ( ) by Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little and 6 others
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