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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 (ΆΦΆ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization 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 [citation needed] , albeit; some have foregone the pledging period and granted an honorary status [citation needed] . 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 fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean."[3]
The fraternity has been led by 32 General Presidents and its membership includes at least two Heads of Government, three Governors, a Vice President, two Senators, a Supreme Court Justice, two Presidential candidates, Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Lenin Peace Prize, Kluge Prize, and French Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre laureates, and at least five Rhodes Scholars, seventeen Ambassadors, thirteen Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Congressional Gold Medal, and seventeen Spingarn Medal recipients, and eleven 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.
The House of Alpha
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]
Here follows a list of notable Alphas.
Founders
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Academia
Educators
Ninety-five percent of all Black Colleges have been headed by an Alpha.[5]
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Professors and researchers
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Rhodes scholars
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.
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Business
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Entertainment
Music
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Film, television and theatre
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Government, law, and public policy
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Vice Presidents and Supreme Court
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Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks
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Members of the United States Congress
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U.S. Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Ambassadors
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Mayors
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Judges and Lawyers
Seventy-five percent of all Black Male Lawyers are Alphas.[5]
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Other U.S. political and legal figures
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Government officials outside the U.S.
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Journalist and media personalities
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Literature
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Military Service
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Religion
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Science
Sixty percent of all Black Male Doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black Male Dentists are Alphas.[5]
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Service and social reform
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Sports
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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
References
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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! |
| by Sydney P. Brown[2] |
- ^ "Arizona Student Unions". Fraternity and sorority programs. University of Arizona. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
- ^ 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) - ^ "Alpha Response to Supreme Court Decision" (Press release). Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- ^ Mason, Herman "Skip". "James R. Williams". The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha. Four-G year=1999. ISBN 1-885066-63-5.
{{cite book}}: Missing pipe in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b c d "Alpha Phi Alpha Facts". Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Epsilon Zeta chapter. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
- ^ Mason, Herman "Skip" (1999) [1997]. "'The Visionary Jewel'—Eugene Kinckle Jones". The Talented Tenth: The Founders and Presidents of Alpha. Four-G. ISBN 1-885066-63-5.
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