![]() Jewel Charles Henry Chapman articulated a founding principle of the fraternity when he said, “We must never lose sight of the fact that we must take part in the development not only of ourselves but of all humanity.” With this vision Alpha Phi Alpha encouraged scholarship, fellowship, good character, and service to humanity. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity meeting at Howard University (n.d.) ![]() Tandy, the son of a Lexington, Kentucky building contractor who later became the first registered African American architect in New York. and the only married member of the founders, later became a staff member of the U.S. Other founders included Eugene Kinkle Jones, the son of a Virginia Union University professor, after graduation would become the first Executive Secretary of the National Urban League George Biddle Kelley of Troy, New York who later became New York State’s first registered African American civil engineer and Nathanial Allison Murray, son of the first black employee of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity currently has more than 850 chapters around the world and over 185,000 members.Īlpha Phi Alpha was founded by seven undergraduate students at Cornell who were later called by other fraternity members, “The Seven Jewels.” They were Henry Arthur Callis, who was born in 1887 in Rochester, New York, the son of an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Minister and Charles Henry Chapman, an older student and cafe owner in Ithaca. (Alpha) was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on December 4, 1906. The first black Greek-letter organization, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
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