The name of the organization was changed to its current name in 1915, shortly after its creation. The organization known today as Kappa Alpha Psi was nationally incorporated under the name of Kappa Alpha Nu on May 15, 1911. The decision upon the name Kappa Alpha Nu may have been to honor the Alpha Kappa Nu club which began in 1903 on the Indiana University campus but had too few registrants to effect continued operation. The fraternity was founded as Kappa Alpha Nu on the night of January 5, 1911, by ten African-American college students. Frederick Mitchell's name is on the application for the incorporation of the fraternity but withdrew from school and thus never became a member of the fraternity. By the end of the first year, the ritual was completed, and a design for the coat of arms and motto had begun. The founders endeavored to establish the fraternity with a strong foundation before embarking on plans of expansion. Guy Levis Grant, Edward Giles Irvin, and Sgt. Marcus Peter Blakemore, Paul Waymond Caine, George Wesley Edmonds, Dr. are: Elder Watson Diggs, more affectionately known as 'The Dreamer', Dr. The founders of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Alpha Psi celebrated its 100th anniversary on Januone of four African American intercollegiate fraternities to do so. The fraternity is the oldest predominantly African American Greek-letter society founded west of the Appalachian Mountains still in existence, and is known for its 'cane stepping' in NPHC organized step shows. Kappa Alpha Psi is a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC). Kappa Alpha Psi sponsors programs providing community service, social welfare and academic scholarship through the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation and is a supporter of the United Negro College Fund and Habitat for Humanity. The current editor of the magazine is Earl T. The former editor of the magazine was Jonathan Hicks. Summers was the magazine's first editor and later became the Fourteenth Grand Polemarch. The Journal is published four times a year in February, April, October and December. The Kappa Alpha Psi Journal has been the official magazine of the fraternity since 1914.

The fraternity has many notable members recognized as leaders in the arts, athletics, business, Civil Rights, education, government, and science sectors at the local, national and international level. The president of the national fraternity is known as the Grand Polemarch, who assigns a Province Polemarch for each of the twelve provinces (regions) of the nation. The fraternity has over 160,000 members with 721 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, South Korea, Japan, United States Virgin Islands, Nigeria, South Africa, the Dominican Republic, and The Bahamas.

Since the fraternity's founding on Januat Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never restricted membership on the basis of color, creed or national origin though membership traditionally is dominated by those of African heritage. ( ΚΑΨ) is a historically African American fraternity. Sims.Historically African American fraternity Kappa Alpha PsiĪchievement in Every Field of Human Endeavor

Members living on campus included: Horace Bond, John R. Several alumni members lived in campus housing and assured the early success of Beta Gamma. Washington ().ĭean Horace Mann Bond and Professor Sagamon Dorsey of Dillard University, and the New Orleans Alumni Chapter were pivotal in establishing and chartering the Beta Gamma Chapter. Wynne (), and, Past Polemarch of New Orleans Alumni: Philip M. Wilson, Andrew Douglas, Victor Vavasseur (), Jesse J. Initiated on April 16, 1937, charter members of the Beta Gamma included: Polemarch Herman J. Chartered April 16, 1937, Beta Gamma became the first chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi for undergraduate students in the Greater New Orleans Area and the first Greek-lettered fraternity on the campus of Dillard University. One year following the establishment of the New Orleans Alumni Chapter on the campus of Dillard, an undergraduate chapter was formed, the Beta Gamma of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. From History of the New Orleans Alumni Chapter

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