04 Dec BLACK IN TIME: A Moment In Our History

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
<div style="text-align: center; background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><img src="http://students.missouri.edu/%7Eaphia/graphics/founders.jpg"/> Alpha Phi Alpha, <span style="font-style: italic;">

The First Black Greek Letter Society</span>, Was Founded december 4, 1906, In New York, At Historically White, Cornell University. Alpha Phi Alpha Was Organized As A Literary And Study Group.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">After Banning Together Within The University's Racially Hostile Envoronment, <span style="font-style: italic;">Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle</span> And <span style="font-style: italic;">Vertner Woodson Tandy</span>, Collectively Known As The "</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Jewels</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">" Of The Fraternity, Established The Organization On The Principles Of <span style="font-style: italic;">Scholarship, Fellowship, Good Character</span> And <span style="font-style: italic;">Uplifting Humanity</span>.</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">Today Alpha Phi Alpha's Membership Totals More Than 175,000. Among Its Members Past And Present:</span><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Owens, Dick Gregory, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, Dr. Cornell West, Dr. John Hope Franklin, Dennis Kimbro, Rosie Grier, Duke Ellington, Countee Cullen, Donny Hathaway, Andrew Young, Lionel Richie, Stuart Scott, Ron Brown, Adam Clayton Powell, Tony Brown, John Johnson, Garrett Morgan, Lenny Wilkins And Keenan Ivory Wayans.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"/><br style="font-weight: bold;"/><span style="font-weight: bold;">"<i>I</i><span style="font-style: italic;">n Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It</span>." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.</span></div>
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