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Originally posted by sigmadiva
To continue to fan the flames.....
In reference to NPC's being called historically White, I really (and sincerely) do not understand why people are getting offended. Note the term historically , meaning in the past . If anyone can provide evidence of there being an African American woman initiated into an NPC before 1960 / 1965 - and the chapter was not closed because an attempt was made to initiate an African American woman, then please provide it.
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In "Our Kind of People: The Story of America's Black Upper Class", by Lawrence Otis Graham -- it is mentioned that Barbara Delaney was the first African-American woman initiated into the NPC when she became a member of Sigma Kappa at Cornell University in either 1956 or 1957.
Obviously I am not an SK, so only SKs would be able to verify that info via their sister directory.
I did a search of the Cornell University Greek Life site and did not find an existing Sigma Kappa chapter there. Still, the reasons why that chapter may or may not have closed is no one else's business but the members of Sigma Kappa.