(1883-1947)
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Born in Christian County, Kentucky, was a
graduate of Indiana State Normal (now Indiana State Teachers
College) and Indiana University, the birthplace of Kappa Alpha Psi
Fraternity. He served as Grand Polemarch for the first six
consecutive years of the Fraternity's existence. For this and
other outstanding contributions to the Fraternity, he was awarded
the Fraternity's first Laurel Wreath in December, 1924.
An educator by profession, he taught in the
public schools of Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was elevated to
a principalship. After his death on November 8, 1947, the name of
the school where he taught was changed to the Elder Diggs School
in his memory. Upon America's entrance into World War I, Diggs
resigned his principalship to enter the Nation's first Officer's
Training Camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and was commissioned a
lieutenant. After European service with the 368th Infantry, he
became a captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Diggs was
instrumental in having the Indiana Constitution amended to permit
Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard. |
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