LIST OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA BROTHERS

The 'list of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers' (commonly referred to as ''Alphas'' Arizona Student Unions ) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΆΦΆ), 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 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 initiated posthumously when he became an exalted honorary member of Omega chapter in 1921. The History of Alpha Phi Alpha, A Development in College Life, , Charles H., Wesley, Foundation Publishers, 1981, ASIN: B000ESQ14W
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 through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean.^[1]

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 four Rhodes Scholars, seventeen 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.

Contents

The House of Alpha

Founders

Nobel laureates

Government, law, and public policy

Heads of Government and Governors

Vice Presidents and Supreme Court

Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks

Ambassadors

Members of Congress

State and Supreme Court

Mayors

Judges and Lawyers

Service and social reform

Academia

Educators

Professors and researchers

Rhodes scholars

Science

Business

Religion

Literature

Military Service

Journalist and media personalities

Entertainment

Music

Film, television and theatre

Athletics

Olympics

American basketball

American football

Other Athletics

Other Alphas

General Presidents

See also

References

The House of Alpha

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 ''House of Alpha'' was written in 1946 by fraternity brother Sydney P. Brown as a dedicatory statement for the "Alpha House" (fraternity house) of the Theta Xi Lambda chapter. The statement has become a for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha." Alpha Phi Alpha Facts
Here follows a list of notable Alphas.

Founders

The founders of Alpha Phi Alpha are collectively referred to as the ''Seven Jewels''

Henry Arthur Callis Callis

Charles Henry Chapman Chapman

Eugene Kinckle Jones Jones

George Biddle Kelley Kelley

Nathaniel Allison Murray Murray

Robert Harold Ogle Ogle

Vertner Woodson Tandy Tandy

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Government, law, and public policy

:'''Note:' individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.''

Heads of Government and Governors

Charles Turnbull

Vice Presidents and Supreme Court

Hubert Humphrey

Thurgood Marshall

Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks

Lee Brown

Rayford Logan

Samuel Pierce

Ambassadors

Frederick Douglass

Lionel Hampton

Andrew Young

Members of Congress

Edward Brooke

Danny Davis

Ron Dellums

Chaka Fattah

Ralph Metcalfe

Adam Powell, Jr.

Charles Rangel

State and Supreme Court

David Scott

Byron Brown

Willie Brown

Ernest Morial

James Williams

Mayors

Kwame Kilpatrick

Kurt Schmoke

Judges and Lawyers

Seventy-five percent of all Black Male Lawyers are Alphas.

Joe Brown

Robert Carter

Charles Houston

Harry Johnson

Belford Lawson

Service and social reform

Frederick Douglass

W.E.B. Du Bois

Dick Gregory

John Hope

Charles S. Johnson

Rayford Logan

Jesse E. Moorland

Channing Tobias

Max Yergan

Whitney Young

Academia

Educators

Ninety-five percent of all Black Colleges have been headed by an Alpha.

Thomas Cole, Sr.

Norman Francis

John Hope

Charles S. Johnson

Frederick Patterson

Henry Ponder

Walter Washington

Charles H. Wesley

Professors and researchers

John Franklin

Kelly Miller

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.

Science

Sixty percent of all Black Male Doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black Male Dentists are Alphas.

Garrett Morgan

Earl Renfroe

Business

John Johnson

Samuel Pierce

Religion

Literature

Countee Cullen

Chester Himes

Military Service

Samuel Gravely

Winston E. Scott

Johnnie Wilson

Journalist and media personalities

Chuck Stone

Entertainment

Music

Duke Ellington

Lionel Hampton

Lionel Richie

Noble Sissle

Film, television and theatre

Tim Reid

Paul Robeson

Athletics

Olympics

:'''Note:' individuals who belong in multiple sections appear in the first relevant section.''

Ralph Metcalfe at Marquette University

Jesse Owens

Eddie Tolan

American basketball

American football

Paul Robeson

Other Athletics

Other Alphas

Raymond Cannon

General Presidents

See also

★ List of Alpha Phi Alpha chapters

References

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