About the Author:
Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough currently serves as the Vice President for Student Affairs at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia. He earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Higher Education from Georgia State University. An expert on historically Black fraternal organizations, Dr. Kimbrough has given over 250 presentations on Black Greek life, at over eighty campuses and sixty conferences.

Black Greek 101 is the first book to provide a complete analysis of the culture of historically Black fraternities and sororities. It provides a detailed history of Black fraternalism as a whole, including information about never before discussed fraternitites, chronicles the history of pledging, discusses the membership intake era of Black Greek organizations, exposes over eighty Black fraternal organizations (with in-depth discussion of three that represent different forms of fraternalism), explains the origins of cultural meanings of the artifacts of Black Greek organizations, and identifies the contemporary issues of these organizations, including the developement of Latino fraternal organizations, and the increasing interest of non-Blacks in joining.