User:Corsulian/List of firsts in the North American fraternity and sorority system

This is a list of firsts in the North American fraternity and sorority system.

Category/Type firsts

 * Phi Beta Kappa - The first Greek letter collegiate student society
 * Kappa Alpha Society - The first men's social fraternity
 * Alpha Delta Pi - The first student society that would become a Greek letter women's social fraternity
 * Chi Theta Delta - The first Greek letter women's fraternity, founded 1856
 * Omega Eta Tau - The first secondary school student organization that would become a Greek letter men's fraternity

Scope firsts

 * Sigma Phi - The first men's social fraternity to expand to multiple campuses

Geographic firsts

 * Zeta Psi - The first men's social fraternity to have both an east coast and a west coast chapter; the first men's social fraternity to charter a Canadian chapter
 * Sigma Phi Epsilon - The first men's social fraternity to charter a chapter in all fifty US states
 * Kappa Sigma - The first southern men's social fraternity to establish a chapter in the north (1880)
 * Sigma Alpha Epsilon - The first men's social fraternity established in the south (1856)
 * Sigma Lambda Beta - The first men's social Latino fraternity to have both an east coast and a west coast chapter (1992), following the Latino Greek lettered boom that started in 1975

Cultural firsts

 * Alpha Phi Alpha - The first men's fraternity established for African-Americans
 * Alpha Kappa Alpha - The first women's fraternity established for African-Americans
 * Phi Iota Alpha - The first men's fraternity established for Latinos
 * Lambda Theta Alpha - The first women's fraternity established for Latinas
 * Phi Sigma Nu - The first men's fraternity established for Native Americans
 * Alpha Pi Omega - The first women's fraternity established for Native Americans

Nominal firsts

 * Gamma Phi Beta - The first organization to label itself a "sorority"