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Since 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha has
grown immensely. It now boasts over
750 chapters and over 150,000 members
in North America, Africa, the Caribbean,
Europe and Asia. And even with such
growth it has managed to create
great men who have achieved levels
of magnificence. Today the torch
of enlightenment, scholarship, and
fraternity is still carried by the
members of this most illustrious
of fraternities. Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc. remains the very
heart and soul of Black greek-letter
organizations worldwide.
Alpha Phi Alpha was the first inter-collegiate
letter fraternity established for
black college men. Cornell University,
among larger American universities,
witnessed the organization of the
first letter fraternity for Black
students by Black students, and
Howard University, among Black universities,
was the scene of the organization
for the first letter fraternity
chapter in an institution primarily
for Black youth. Alpha Chapter of
Alpha Phi Alpha at Cornell University
and Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
take the honors in these historic
events, one at a predominantly white
institution and the other at a predominantly
Black one. The First General Convention,
pictured left, was held in 1908
at Howard University.
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| Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
participating in historic
March on Washington. |
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| Three
living founders in 1956 at
the Fiftieth Anniversary Convention:
Jewel George B. Kelley, Jewel
Henry Arthur Callis, and Jewel
Nathaniel A. Murray. |
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