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Alpha Phi International Women's Fraternity (ΑΦ, also known as APhi) is an international sorority with 175 active chapters and over 270,000 initiated members. Founded at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York in 1872, it was the fourth Greek-letter organization for women, and the first women's fraternity founded in the northeast.
The list of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas) [1] includes initiated and honorary members. Alpha Phi Alpha is the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students. [ 2 ]
In 2013, 15 Alpha Phi Alpha members pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment charges arising from off-campus hazing at Jacksonville State University in 2011, in which pledges were beaten, humiliated, hospitalized, and forced to drink toxic drinks until they vomited. The members involved were all sentenced to 365 days in jail.
Charles Henry Chapman (June 20, 1876 – November 17, 1934) was an American academic and one of the founders of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Greek letter fraternity for African American men. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He is known for advancing agricultural education and fraternal organizations.
Alpha Phi Alpha is an international fraternity established at Cornell University in 1906 as the first intercollegiate fraternity for African American men. [1] As of 2023, Alpha Phi Alpha has chartered 979 chapters; 686 chapters are active in the United States and the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Germany, Korea, and the Virgin Islands.
In 1906, the first fraternity for Black college men, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., was founded at Cornell University. Two years later, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was established.
Alpha Phi Alpha said the event, said to be capable of generating around $4.6 million, will not be held in Florida in 2025 due to "hostile" politics. Oldest Black fraternity out of Florida for 2025 ...
Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University Eugene Kinckle Jones (July 30, 1885 – January 11, 1954) was a leader of the National Urban League and one of the seven founders ( commonly referred to as Seven Jewels ) of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at Cornell University in 1906.