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Convened in December 1905 as a literary society with the first presiding officer being CC Poindexter, it was established as a fraternity on December 4, 1906, at Ithaca, New York. Alpha Phi Alpha opened chapters at other colleges, universities, and cities, and named them with Greek letters.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved into a fraternity with a founding date of December 4, 1906.
The initiation of new members took place on October 30, 1906, at a Masonic Hall including Eugene Kinckle Jones, Lemuel Graves and Gordon Jones. [12] James Morton was considered and selected but at the time was not registered at the university. [11] It was felt that Poindexter being a graduate student dominated the meetings of Alpha Phi Alpha. [13]
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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.
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.