The Sigma Story . . .

Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was founded November 12, 1922 on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Seven dynamic, visionary schoolteachers, Mary Lou Allison Little, Dorothy Hanley Whiteside, Cubena McClure, Hattie Mae Dulin Redford, Bessie M. Downey Martin, Nannie Mae Gahn Johnson, and the still vibrantly living, Vivian White Marbury, responded to a need for Black upliftment  at the predominantly white campus of Butler University.

Sigma Gamma Rho remains the only historically Black sorority that was NOT founded on the supportive Black campus of Howard University.  Our aim is to enhance the quality of life within the community, through sisterhood, scholarship and service.  Sigma Gamma Rho is an international service organization, with over 80,000 members in 450 chapters in Africa, England, the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, the Caribbean and the U.S.

For more information about the history of Sigma Gamma Rho, please stop by our national homepage.