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The Legacy
ALPHA PHI ALPHA
"First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All"
The first intercollegiate Black Greek-letter fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906. Alpha laid the blueprint — manhood, scholarship, perseverance, and uplift carried forward by every chapter since.
Custom Chapter Orders
Founded
December 4, 1906Cornell University
Colors
Old Gold
Black
Symbol
The Sphinx
Call
A-Phi
Founders
7 Jewels: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, Vertner Woodson Tandy
Notable Members
Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jesse Owens, Frederick Douglass, Cornel West