National HistoryAlpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated is the first African-American Greek organization in America. AΦA was founded in 1906 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY by what are known as the “Seven Jewels”; Henry A. Callis, Charles H. Chapman, Eugene Jones, George B. Kelley, Nathaniel A. Murray, Robert H. Ogle and Vertner W. Tandy. From Alpha Phi Alpha ranks have come outstanding public servants such as; Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Senator Edward Brooke, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., U. S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, U. N. Ambassador Andrew Young, UNCF President William Gray, Paul Robertson, Mayor Maynard Jackson, Mayor Willie Brown, Mayor Osby Davis, Dr. John Hope Franklin and many others.
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