Based on the hostile attitude and circumstances facing Blacks at Indiana University, Diggs decided to establish a fraternity on campus to give African-Americans support and sanctuary based on high Christian ideals and the purpose of achievement. He established the first nine chapters in addition to the Indianapolis Alumni Chapter. Founder Diggs died November 8, In he received the D. In he was married to Laura Hammons. In addition to his activities with Kappa Alpha Psi, organizations.
He was a member of the Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis. George W. In the fall of , George entered Indiana University at Bloomington. He joined nine other students in founding Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
After George returned home for the summer of , his father became ill with pneumonia and died. His father had worked in the coal mines of Vandenburgh County for many years.
George, being the oldest son, became head of the family, thus preventing his retun to school. With the new responsibility of supporting the family, George took a job with the area coal mines and worked with the coal mines and the railroad unitl he died of pneumonia on Junie 13, They became the parents of one son Noel. An Official Website of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. On January 5, , he cofounded, along with nine other men, the first black fraternity at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.
Elder Diggs was born December 23, , in Hopkinsville, Ky. He entered Howard University in Washington D. Diggs believed he could establish an African American fraternity on the largely white IU campus. He envisioned this would help give black men support and sanctuary.
The Allied victory along the western front effectively brought the war to a close. He served as a teacher and principal for 26 years until his death.
Digg's contributions to Kappa Alpha Psi are as deep as they are wide. From the onset, he envisioned an fraternity that stood toe-to-toe with its mainstream counterparts. He developed initiatives, processes, and concepts that underpin the fraternity's foundation to this day.
Elder Watson Diggs was married three times. In the summer of , he married his childhood sweetheart, Clara Bell Smith, a public school teacher in Rising Sun, Indiana. At the time, the school frowned upon married women teaching; as a result, the marriage was kept a secret. Within the next year, Smith fell ill, resulting in her death in March Diggs second wife was Elizabeth Byrd, whom he married in the summer of , after earning his graduate degree.
Little is known about the length of this marriage but it is believed to have produced no children.
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