The Alpha legacy: A brief history

Michigan Chronicle | August 5, 2003 | Copyright

Michigan Chronicle
08-05-2003
Since being founded on Dec. 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. has
supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African Americans and other
people of color around the world.

Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity
established for African Americans, was founded at Cornell University in
Ithaca, N.Y., by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong
bond of brotherhood among African descendants in this country.

The visionary founders, known as the "Jewels" of the fraternity, are Henry
Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene ...

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