Bryon was so impressed that he persuaded Diggs to enroll with him in the fall. Armstrong.ĭuring the summer of that year, Byron Armstrong visited his cousin, Irven Armstrong at Indiana University. While a student there, he developed a friendship with fellow Hoosier, Byron K. Following graduation from Indiana State Normal School in the spring of 1908, Diggs enrolled at Howard University in 1909. He received a one-room school education in Louisville, Kentucky, where he helped teach the younger children.
Diggs and his brother (William Ellis) and sister (Effie) were reared by their mother, Cornelia.
He was born in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, on December 23, 1883, and was the eldest son of three children. Founder Elder Watson Diggs, was quiet, polished, scholarly, a prolific writer and commonly referred to as ‘the Father of Kappa’.