List of Alpha Phi Alpha members
The list of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas[1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students. Founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has continued to supply voice and vision to the struggle of African Americans and people of color around the world. The Fraternity has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community's fight for civil rights, through Alpha men such as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Andrew Young. The fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe and Caribbean.[2]
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 may forego the pledging process and be granted an honorary status. 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 having been initiated into Omega chapter.[3]
Alpha Phi Alpha's membership includes at least two Heads of Government, a Vice President, two Senators, a Supreme Court Justice, two Presidential candidates, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Lenin Peace Prize, Kluge Prize and Croix de guerre laureates, and at least four Rhodes Scholars, fifteen Ambassadors, thirteen Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Congressional Gold Medal, and Seventeen Spingarn Medal recipients, and nine Olympians. Buildings, monuments, and schools have been named after Alpha men such as the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge, and the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
House of Alpha
"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.
I AM ALPHA PHI ALPHA!"
Sydney P. Brown [3] </ref>
The House of Alpha
Lives once touched by me become tuned, and are thereafter, amiable, kindly, fraternal.
— The House of Alpha, [3]
The House of Alpha was written in 1946 by fraternity member Sydney P. Brown as a dedicatory statement for the Alpha House (fraternity house) of Theta Xi Lamdba. Loyalty to the Fraternity ideas and "House of Alpha" was repeatedly urged by brothers on the part of those who were among the initiated. The statement has become a manifesto for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may be referred to as a "House of Alpha."[3][4]
Here follows a list of notable Alphas.
Founders
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Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year for outstanding research, the invention of ground-breaking techniques or equipment, or outstanding contributions to society.
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Government, law and public policy
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Heads of Government and Territorial Governors
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Vice Presidents and Supreme Court
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Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks
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Ambassadors
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Members of Congress
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State and Supreme Court
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Mayors
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Judges and Lawyers
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Service and social reform
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Academia
Educators
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Professors and researchers
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Rhodes scholars
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Science
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Business
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Religion
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Literature
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Military Service
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Journalist and media personalities
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Entertainment
Music
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Film, television and theatre
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Athletics
Olympics
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American basketball
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American football
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Other Athletics
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Other Alphas
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General Presidents
See also
References
- ^ "Arizona Student Unions". Fraternity and sorority programs. University of Arizona. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ "Alpha Response to Supreme Court Decision" (Press release). Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- ^ a b c d Wesley, Charles H. (1981) [1929]. The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life (14th edition ed.). Foundation Publishers. ASIN: B000ESQ14W.
{{cite book}}:|edition=has extra text (help) - ^ "17th House of Alpha". Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma Chapter. Retrieved 2007-07-04.