However, in 1929, A charter was granted to the sorority's Alpha chapter once the group met the requirements for membership for establishing a sorority at Butler University and in 1930 new articles of incorporation were filed that allowed women of all professions as members as long as they had or were attending a recognized college. ' When it was incorporated in 1922, the membership was intended for teachers. Brokenburr told the group: 'You young ladies have started something Great and Wonderful for the Women of our Country. The group, with the help of Robert Lee Brokenburr, became incorporated as a sorority for school teachers in Indiana in 1922. was organized on November 12, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, by seven young African American women: Mary Lou Allison Gardner Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Vivian Irene White Marbury, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford, Bessie Mae Downey Rhoades Martin, and Cubena McClure. It has launched programs such as Sigma Teen Towns in the 1940s and formed partnerships with the March of Dimes, USA Swimming and others. Sigma Gamma Rho has affiliate groups for women at different stages in life: Rhosebuds (elementary-age girls), the Rhoer Club Affiliates (teenage girls), and the Philos Affiliates (friends of the sorority). 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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