SWING PHI SWING SFI Raleigh Graduate Chapter

Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship, Inc.® was founded at Winston-Salem State University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the conclusion of the Civil Rights Movement and the burgeoning of the Black Power Movement. Twelve African-American women - proud, innovative, and determined - with the help of their brother organization Groove Phi Groove, founded Swing Phi Swing on Friday, April 4, 1969 which was the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  These twelve dynamic women displayed their commitment to the cause. 

The Raleigh Graduate Chapter of Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship Incorporated® was founded in 1989 by:​
Arlena Groves
Veronica Mack-Cohen
Patricia Sampson
Arnetta White
Debbie Burt
Gwendolyn Whitley
Kim Williams-Capers
and Teresa Edmundson  

The Raleigh Graduate Chapter holds the distinct honor of inducting the very first graduate line into the nation of Swing on April 7, 1990.  
The line name was "Three the Hard Way".