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History
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first
inter-collegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African
-American college students, was organized at Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York, in 1906. The
seven visionary founders
at Cornell (Henry A. Callis,
Charles H. Chapman, Eugene K. Jones, George B. Kelley, Nathaniel A.
Murray, Robert H. Ogle and Vertner W. Tandy) labored in years of severe
economic struggle and racial conflict in the United States. Despite
their difficulties of organization in this untried field of student
life, the early fraternity pioneers succeeded in laying a firm
foundation and remained steadfast in their goals. The seven visionary
founders espoused the principles of good character, sound scholarship,
fellowship and the uplifting of humanity.
The Fraternity has grown steadily in influence
throughout the years. 129,000 men have been initiated into Alpha Phi
Alpha since its founding in 1906. It has been interacial since 1945.
There are now 350 college chapters on campuses, and 350 alumni chapters
in local communities, located in 44 states, the District of Columbia,
the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has long stood at the
forefront of the African-American community's fight for civil rights
through leaders such as: W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Edward
Brooke, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young,
William Gray, Paul Robeson, and many others.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has provided
leadership development and community service training to young men for
more than eight decades. Thanks largely to its visionary founders and
early leaders, the Fraternity has become the most prestigious
organization of its kind in existance today. |
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