Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity was founded on the kampus of Indiana University on January 5^th, 1911.  The fundamental purpose of the fraternity is achievement.  Early in this century, African American students were actively dissuaded from attending college.  Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from this assimilating into the co-curricular kampus life.  This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder Watson Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, Ezra D. Alexander, Henry T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, Paul W. Caine, George W. Edmonds, Guy L. Grant, Edward G. Irvin, and John M. Lee to form Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, which remains the only greek letter organization with its alpha chapter on the University’s Kampus.  The founders sought a formula that would immediately raise the sighs of black kollegians and simulate them to accomplishments higher that they might have imagined fashioning.  Achievement as its patriotism and honor in a bond of fraternity.

Kappa Alpha Psi promotes a style of intellectual an aesthetic evaluation of more than 100,000+ members, both undergraduate and alumni, located throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Korea, Japan, Germany, and Bahamas.  The story of Kappa Alpha Psi is to a large extent the story of black student everywhere, whether organized or not, who attended predominately white kollegues or universities in America prior to World War II.  Their determination in the face of seemingly insurmountable social and economic odds is the source of inspiration to less than full privileged students at white institutions of higher learning throughout America.