article_snippet: Chappell Cook (bottom row, second from right) objected to the fraternity expanding North because Chappell Cook (bottom row, second from right) believed 'agitation' over slavery would make it impossible for 'harmony' Though the fraternity expanding North has the fraternity expanding North own fraught racial history.
article_snippet: When the question of 'Northern Expansion' was brought up, one charter member - later a Confederate army surgeon - said one charter member - later a Confederate army surgeon didn't think heading north was wise because 'the constant agitation of the slavery question' would make getting along impossible.
article_snippet: the constant agitation of the slavery question' is claimed that the fraternity expanding North did not invite a black member until 1966 - and the constant agitation of the slavery question' took one activist brother seven ballots and a threat to ban every other new pledge before the other brothers assented.
article_snippet: When a North Carolina chapter member raised the topic of a 'Northern Extension,' charter member Thomas Chappell Cook - who later served as a surgeon in the Confederate army - responded that 'the constant agitation of the slavery question was a barrier to northern chapters, as it would preclude the possibility of harmony.'
highlights_snippet: Charter member rejected idea of expansion to the North because of 'agitation over the slave question'
  No black members invited until 1966 - and even then it took seven ballots to get Sigma Alpha Epsilon in, it is claimed .
  