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The list of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas[1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Phi Alpha(AΦA), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letterorganization established for Black college students.[2] Founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha opened chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek-letters. Members traditionally pledge into a chapter, although some members were granted honorary status prior to the fraternity's discontinuation of the practice of granting honorary membership. A chapter name ending in "Lambda" denotes a graduate chapter. No chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha is designated Omega, the last letter of the Greek alphabet that traditionally signifies "the end". Deceased brothers are respectfully referred to as having joined Omega Chapter. Frederick Douglass is distinguished as the only member initiated posthumously when he became an exalted honorary member of Omega chapter in 1921.[2]
The honor of serving as General President is especially heartfelt when one recognizes that in "The House of Alpha", the President is "One Among Equals."
The House of Alpha was written in 1946 by fraternity brother Sydney P. Brown as a dedicatory statement for the "Alpha House" (fraternity house) of Theta Chapter and Xi Lambda chapter who jointly shared the fraternity house. Loyalty to the Fraternity ideas was repeatedly urged by brothers on the part of those who were among the initiated, and for every chapter with the vision of a fraternity house. The statement has become a manifesto for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha".[2][5]
Eugene K. Jones, sometimes referred to as "The Visionary Jewel" once said:
Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good and practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem...should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.[6]
Ninety-five percent of all Black Colleges have been headed by an Alpha.[5]
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|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Herman Branson
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Gamma
| class="note" | President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist
| style="text-align:center;" | [11][12]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | James P. Brawley
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Phi
| class="note" | President of Clark College
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Calvin Burnett
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Lambda
| class="note" | President of Coppin State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Julius Chambers
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Gamma Beta
| class="note" | Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14][15]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | James Cheek
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Rho
| class="note" | President of Howard University
| style="text-align:center;" | [16]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Thomas W. Cole, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Sigma
| class="note" | First President of Clark Atlanta University, President of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst
| style="text-align:center;" | [17]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Thomas W. Cole, Sr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Sigma
| class="note" | President of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
| style="text-align:center;" | [8][14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Matthew Davage
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Phi
| class="note" | President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | William B. Delauder
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Alpha
| class="note" | President of Delaware State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [16]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | James Douglas
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Theta
| class="note" | President of Texas Southern University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Floyd H. Flake
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Zeta Gamma Lambda
| class="note" | Former US Congressman from New York; President of Wilberforce University; Pastor Greater Allen Cathedral of New York
| style="text-align:center;" | [18][19]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Ernest A. Finney, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Alpha
| class="note" | Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [16][20]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Luther H. Foster, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Gamma
| class="note" | Fourth President of Tuskegee University
| style="text-align:center;" | [2]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Luther H. Foster, Sr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | "unknown"
| class="note" | President of Virginia State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [21]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Norman Francis
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Sigma Lambda
| class="note" | President of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
| style="text-align:center;" | [22][23]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Robert Michael Franklin, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | "unknown"
| class="note" | President of Morehouse College
| style="text-align:center;" | [24]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | James Gavin
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Gamma Mu
| class="note" | President of Morehouse School of Medicine
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Hugh Gloster
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Rho
| class="note" | President of Morehouse College
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | George Gore, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Tau Lambda
| class="note" | Fifth President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; Founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society
| style="text-align:center;" | [25][26]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Cornelius Henderson
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Phi
| class="note" | President of Gammon Theological Seminary
| style="text-align:center;" | [14][27]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Charles Hines
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta
| class="note" | President of Prairie View A&M University; Major General
| style="text-align:center;" | [28]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Ernest Holloway
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Kappa
| class="note" | 14th President of Langston University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | John Hope
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Eta Lambda
| class="note" | First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
| style="text-align:center;" | [13][29][30][31]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Freeman A. Hrabowski III
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Gamma Iota
| class="note" | President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; social activist
| style="text-align:center;" | [32][33]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Frederick Humphries
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Nu
| class="note" | Eighth President of Florida A&M University
| style="text-align:center;" | [16]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Charles S. Johnson
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Theta
| class="note" | Editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University
| style="text-align:center;" | [9]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Walter M. Kimbrough
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Zeta Pi
| class="note" | President of Philander Smith College
| style="text-align:center;" | [16][34]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Raphael Lanier
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Mu Lambda
| class="note" | United States Ambassador to Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University
| style="text-align:center;" | [11]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Thomas F. Law
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Rho
| class="note" | First President of St. Paul's College
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | John H. Lewis
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | "unknown"
| class="note" | President of Morris Brown College
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | John Middleton
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Nu Eta Lambda
| class="note" | President of Morris Brown College
| style="text-align:center;" | [13]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Luna Mishoe
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Psi Lambda
| class="note" | President of Delaware State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [35]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Joseph T. McMillan, Jr.
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta
| class="note" | First President of Huston-Tillotson College
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Frederick D. Patterson
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | "unknown"
| class="note" | Third President Tuskegee University; Co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient
| style="text-align:center;" | [22][29][36]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Benjamin Payton
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Delta
| class="note" | Fifth President of Tuskegee University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Henry Ponder
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Beta Kappa
| class="note" | President of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice-chairman World Policy Council
| style="text-align:center;" | [8][11][37]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Earl Richardson
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Nu
| class="note" | President of Morgan State University
| style="text-align:center;" | [14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | John B. Slaughter
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Kappa Tau
| class="note" | President of University of Maryland and Occidental College; First African American Director of the National Science Foundation
| style="text-align:center;" | [38]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Louis Wade Sullivan
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Alpha Rho
| class="note" | Secretary of Health and Human Services; Co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine
| style="text-align:center;" | [16]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Ronald Temple
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Delta Gamma Lambda
| class="note" | President of City Colleges of Chicago
| style="text-align:center;" | [16]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Walter Washington
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Gamma Upsilon
| class="note" | President of Alcorn State University; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
| style="text-align:center;" | [8][14]
|- style="vertical-align:top;" class="vcard"
| class="fn" | Charles H. Wesley
| style="text-align:center;" class="org" | Zeta
| class="note" | President of Central State University; President of Wilberforce University; Executive Director and President of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH); 14th General President and Historian of Alpha Phi Alpha
| style="text-align:center;" | [8][16][31]
The Rhodes Scholarship is the world's oldest and arguably most prestigious international fellowship. The scholarships have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Rhodes Trust in Oxford on the basis of academic qualities, as well as those of character.
Jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist of Shuffle Along which became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans
Assistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led GovernorGeorge Wallace to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known surviving defendant in international cause célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
chief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy for racial equality in dismantling the Jim Crow laws; First Black Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn Medal recipient
President of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundraising, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial; 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine
Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. Author of 59 United Statespatents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries
Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal
Orthodontist, for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after Renfroe
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 2nd Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet
First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009; 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team;, first African American consensus All American college basketball player, NBA player, first African American to play in the NBA All star game
NFL player, 2 time college football All-American, College Football Hall of Fame, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate
Head of Grambling State University football program for 56 years, established himself as the winningest coach in college football history, becoming the first coach to record 400 wins, and recorded 408 total career wins
NFL player; 2007 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee; 1986 NFL Man of the Year; 1987 Sports Illustrated Co-Sportsman of the Year; former Cincinnati City Councilman
GOODWILL is the monarch of this house. Men, unacquainted, enter, shake hands, exchange greetings, and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all who abide within.
I am the eminent expression of friendship. Character and temperament change under my dominant power. Lives once touched by me become tuned, and are thereafter, amiable, kindly, fraternal.
I inspire the musician to play noble sentiments, and assist the chemist to convert ungenerous personalities into individuals of great worth. I destroy all ignoble impulses. I constantly invoke principles which make for common brotherhood, and the echo resounds in all communities, and princely men are thereby recognized. Education, health, music, encouragement, sympathy, laughter—all these are species of interest given on self-invested capital.
Tired moments find me a delightful treat, hours of sorrow, a shrine of understanding—at all times I am faithful to the creed of companionship.
To a few, I am the castle of dreams—ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams. To many, I am the poetic palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial motives; to the great majority, I am the treasury of good fellowship.
In fact, I am the college of friendship; the university of brotherly love; the school for the better making of men.
^Mason, Herman (1999). "The Visionary Jewel—Eugene Kinckle Jones". The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha. Winter Park, FL: Four-G. ISBN1-885066-63-5.
^ abc"Civil rights veterans join Martin Luther King Jr.'s fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha" (Press release). Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. December 2010. Most of you have been walking in the light of Alpha all these years, and now you have finally have made it official.{{cite press release}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^"Ebony Magazine's "Power 150"" (Press release). May 2008. Retrieved June 7, 2009. Alpha continues to stand as the organization that represents the totality of the Black male...
^"Press Briefing by Drug Control Director Lee Brown" (Press release). William J. Clinton Foundation. 1994-02-09. Retrieved 2007-07-04. Our belief is that supply and demand are equally important and, therefore, they should not be competing with each other.
^ abMason, Herman (1999). "Rayford Wittingham Logan". The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha. Winter Park, FL: Four-G. ISBN1-885066-63-5.
^ ab"U.S. Senate approves resolution" (Press release). Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. 2006-11-06. Retrieved 2008-12-31. Alpha Phi Alpha is an exceptional organization that deserves to be recognized and honored for all of its many great achievements. The fraternity has helped shape more than 175,000 young men into extraordinary leaders who contribute positively to their communities and the world.
^Prince, Richard (2004-07-20). "Tony Brown Named Hampton J-School Dean". Richard Prince's Journal-isms. Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
^ abcde"1980-1989 Lineage of Gamma Xi chapter". Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Gamma Xi chapter. Retrieved 2008-01-30. Cite error: The named reference "gammaxi" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).