Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. founded on December 04, 1906, has supplied a voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans since its inception. It members have definitely changed history as we know it.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men with African ancestry, was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven distinguished visionaries. These men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood between African-Americans. The founders, known as the “Seven Jewels” are, in alphabetical order: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy.
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Soon after the founding at Cornell, Alpha Phi Alpha chapters were developed at other colleges and universities -- many of them historically black colleges & universities. (HBCUs)
Many great and inspirational men have crossed the burning sands into the
oasis of Alpha Phi Alpha. Some of these great men are:
Civic Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois, Dick Gregory, Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Federal Government
Thurgood Marshall, Ronald
Dellums, Andrew Young
Local and State Government
David Dinkins, Maynard Jackson, Marion Barry
Media / Entertainment
Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Donny Hathaway
Sports Figures
Jesse Owens, Charles Haley, Eddie Robinson
Educators/Scholars
Charles H. Wesley, John Hope Franklin, Benjamin Payton
Military
General Roscoe Cartwright, Major General James McCall, Commander Winston Scott
Science/Medicine
Benjamin Carson, Garrett Morgan, Levi Watkins
Religious
Bishop John Hurst Adams, Harold Davis, T.J. Jemison
Alpha Phi Alpha and its members continue to be the movers and shakers in today's society. They always strive to "March Onward and Upward Toward the Light!!!"
