Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
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Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter established
for Black college students, was organized at Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York, in 1906. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was born out of the desire for
maintaining close association and unified support for members of this small
minority group, in as much as they were denied, for the most part, the mutual
helpfulness, which the majority of the students attending their university
regularly enjoyed. The seven visionary founders at Cornell: Henry Arthur Callis,
Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinkle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel
Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle and Vertner Woodson Tandy labored in the
years of severe economic struggle and racial conflict in the United States.
Despite their difficulties of life, the early pioneers succeeded in laying a
firm foundation and remained steadfast in their goals pointing toward
development of the Fraternity's membership - that is the espousing of the
principles of good character, sound scholarship, fellowship, and the uplifting
of humanity, especially the struggling Black population around the world.