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The list of Alpha Phi Alpha brothers (commonly referred to as Alphas[1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Phi Alpha (ΆΦΆ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for Black college students.[2] 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, albeit; some have foregone the pledging period and granted an honorary status. A chapter name ending in “Lambda” denotes a graduate chapter; however, there are three graduate chapters exempt from this naming policy. 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.[2] The fraternity through its college and alumni chapters serves the community through nearly a thousand chapters in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean."[3]

The Cornell University Sign at the West Campus Entrance. Cornell University was the site of the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
The Cornell University Sign at the West Campus Entrance. Cornell University was the site of the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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 five Rhodes Scholars, seventeen Ambassadors, thirteen Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Congressional Gold Medal, and seventeen Spingarn Medal recipients, and eleven 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.

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[edit] The House of Alpha

The honor of serving as General President is especially heartfelt when one recognizes that in
"The House of Alpha",
the President is
"One Among Equals."
James R. Williams[4]

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 Theta Chapter and Xi Lambda chapter who jointly shared the fraternity house. 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 statement has become a manifesto for the national fraternity and chapters, as each may symbolically be referred to as a "House of Alpha."[2][5]

Eugene K. Jones, sometimes referred to as "The Visionary Jewel" once said:

Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good and practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem...should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.[6]

Here follows a list of notable Alphas.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.
Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

[edit] Founders

Charter for Alpha Phi Alpha's Alpha chapter with signatures of founders–Cornell University. circa. 1906
Charter for Alpha Phi Alpha's Alpha chapter with signatures of founders–Cornell University. circa. 1906
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Henry A. Callis Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 6th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [7][8]
Charles H. Chapman Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Professor of Agriculture at FAMU [7]
Eugene K. Jones Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet [7][9]
George B. Kelley Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity [7]
Nathaniel A. Murray Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity [7]
Robert H. Ogle Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; professional staff member to the Committee on Appropriations. [7]
Vertner W. Tandy Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha; Architect, whose most famous commission was probably the mansion of Harlem millionairess Madam C.J. Walker [7][10]


[edit] Academia

[edit] Educators

Ninety-five percent of all Black Colleges have been headed by an Alpha.[5]

Floyd Flake
Floyd Flake
Norman Francis
Norman Francis
John Hope
John Hope
Charles S. Johnson
Charles S. Johnson
Frederick Patterson
Frederick Patterson
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Herman Branson Beta Gamma President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist [11][12]
James P. Brawley “unknown” President of Clark College [13]
Calvin Burnett Delta Lambda President of Coppin State University [14]
Julius Chambers Gamma Beta Attorney who argued in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University [14][15]
James Cheek Beta Rho President of Howard University [16]
Thomas W. Cole, Jr. Alpha Sigma First President of Clark Atlanta University, President of West Virginia State University, Interim Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Amherst [17]
Thomas W. Cole, Sr. Alpha Sigma President of Wiley College; 21st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][14]
Matthew Davage Alpha Phi President of Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University [13]
William B. Delauder Beta Alpha President of Delaware State University [16]
James Douglas Delta Theta First President of Texas Southern University [14]
Floyd H. Flake Zeta Gamma Lambda Former US Congressman from New York; President of Wilberforce University; Pastor Greater Allen Cathedral of New York [18][19]
Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Delta Zeta Lambda Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University [16][20]
Luther H. Foster, Jr. Beta Gamma Fourth President of Tuskegee University [2]
Luther H. Foster, Sr. “unknown” President of Virginia State University [21]
Norman Francis Sigma Lambda President of Xavier University; President of Louisiana Recovery Authority; 2006 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient [22][23]
James Gavin Gamma Mu President of Morehouse School of Medicine [13]
Hugh Gloster Alpha Rho President of Morehouse College [13]
George Gore, Jr. “unknown” First President of Florida A&M University; Interim President of Fisk University; Founder of Alpha Kappa Mu Honor Society [24]
Cornelius Henderson Alpha Phi President of Gammon Theological Seminary [14][25]
Charles Hines Beta President of Prairie View A&M University; Major General [26]
Ernest Holloway Beta Kappa 14th President of Langston University [14]
John Hope Eta Lambda First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient [13][27][28][29]
Freeman A. Hrabowski III Delta Lambda President of the University of Maryland Baltimore County; social activist [30][31]
Frederick Humphries Beta Nu First President of Florida A&M University [16]
Charles S. Johnson Theta Editor of the National Urban League’s Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University [9]
Walter M. Kimbrough Zeta Pi President of Philander Smith College [16][32]
Raphael Lanier Mu Lambda United States Ambassador to Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University [11]
Thomas F. Law “unknown” First President of St. Paul's College [14]
John H. Lewis “unknown” President of Morris Brown College [13]
John Middleton “unknown” President of Morris Brown College [13]
Luna Mishoe “unknown” President of Delaware State University [33]
Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. Beta First President of Huston-Tillotson College [14]
Frederick D. Patterson “unknown” Third President Tuskegee University; Co-founder of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF); 1987 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1988 Spingarn Medal recipient [22][27][34]
Benjamin Payton “unknown” Fifth President of Tuskegee University [14]
Henry Ponder Beta Kappa President of Talladega College, Fisk University and Benedict College; 28th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha; vice-chairman World Policy Council [8][11][35]
Earl Richardson “unknown” President of Morgan State University [14]
John Slaughter Kappa Tau President of University of Maryland and Occidental College; First African American Director of the National Science Foundation [36]
Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha Rho Secretary of Health and Human Services; Co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine [16]
Ronald Temple Delta Gamma Lambda President of City Colleges of Chicago [16]
Walter Washington Gamma Upsilon President of Alcorn State University; 24th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][14]
Charles H. Wesley Zeta President of Central State University; President of Wilberforce University; Executive Director and President of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH); 14th General President and Historian of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][16][29]


[edit] Professors and researchers

John Franklin
John Franklin
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
L. Jerome Brandon Zeta Omicron First Black Preisdent of the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine, Research in the metabolic syndrome primarily in African Americans; also some research in aging and physical function in African Americans [37]
John Hope Franklin Alpha Chi President of American Historical Association; 1995 Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2006 Kluge Prize recipient [27][14][38][39]
Hobart Jarrett Alpha Sigma Member of the Wiley College Debate Team that in 1935 defeated the University of Southern California national champions; author of the second volume of The History of Sigma Pi Phi [40][41]
Elgy Johnson “unknown” Mathematician [11]
Kelly Miller Beta
(Honorary)		 Mathematician; First Black admitted to Johns Hopkins University; Author of Out of the House of Bondage [16][42]
James A. Porter Beta First scholar whose book Modern Negro Art became a standard reference work on Black Art in America [2][43]
Cornel West Zeta Beta Lambda Professor of religion at Harvard and Princeton [16]


[edit] 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.

Kurt Schmoke
Kurt Schmoke
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta Lambda Prime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Jamaica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes Scholar [44][45]
Westley Moore Sigma Sigma 2001 Rhodes Scholar [46]
Randal Pinkett "unknown" 4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar [47][48]
Kurt Schmoke "Unknown" First Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes Scholar [49][50]
Andrew Zawacki Kappa Pi 1994 Rhodes Scholar [22]


[edit] Business

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Jesse Binga Honorary Founder of Binga State Bank in Chicago [51]
Henry Brown “unknown” Vice President for Marketing Affairs and Development with Anheuser-Busch [52]
W. Melvin Brown Beta Delta CEO of American Development Corporation [16]
Allen Counts Beta Chairman, Doley Securities, Inc.; former President, Mcclendon, Pryor, Counts (once the largest black-owned investment bank in the USA) [26]
Thomas J. Burrell Theta CEO of Burrell Advertising [16]
Nathaniel Goldston “unknown” CEO and founder of Gourmet Services [52]
Alonzo F. Herndon Eta Lambda
(Honorary)		 Founder and President of Atlanta Life Insurance; namesake of the Alonzo Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College [13][53]
Norris Herndon Sigma President of Atlanta Life Insurance [54]
Eugene Jackson Epsilon Psi CEO of World African Network [33]
Charles James III “unknown” CEO of James Produce [52]
Clifton Jeter Beta CEO, Agricultural Federal Credit Union; CFO of Kennedy Center [26]
John H. Johnson Theta Founder of Johnson Publishing Company, which publishes Ebony and Jet magazines; First Black to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich List, namesake of Howard University’s School of Communications, Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1966 Spingarn Medal recipient; a portion of Chicago’s famed Michigan Avenue was renamed John H. Johnson Avenue [22][27][55]
L.D. Milton “unknown” President of Citizens Bank [33]
Henry Parks Kappa Founder of Parks Sausage [16]
Samuel Pierce Alpha Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and the New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company [56][57][58]
Jonathan Rodgers Alpha Epsilon CEO of TV One; president of CBS Television Stations, and executive producer for the CBS Morning News and Weekend Evening Newscasts [59]
Joshua Smith Delta Xi CEO of Maxima Corporation [16]


[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Music

Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie
Noble Sissle
Noble Sissle
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Cannonball Adderley Beta Nu Jazz Saxophonist [60]
Gerald Albright Iota Chi American Jazz Saxophonist [16]
Jerry Butler Xi Lambda Songwriter, composer, former lead singer of The Impressions [16]
Duke Ellington Alpha Zeta Lambda Composer, bandleader, actor; Grammy Award winner; 1959 Spingarn Medal and 1969 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Pulitzer Prize in recognition of his musical genius [16][27][61]
Marc Gay Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai [16]
Lionel Hampton Phi Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient; Goodwill Ambassador for the United States [60][62]
Antonio Hart Sigma Jazz Saxophonist [16]
Donny Hathaway Beta Songwriter and arranger for The Staple Singers, Jerry Butler, and Aretha Franklin; singer who recorded duets with Roberta Flack, recorded the theme song to the TV series Maude [16][63]
Fletcher Henderson Alpha Phi Pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing music [64]
Carl Martin Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai [60]
Lionel Richie Alpha Nu Lambda
 Singer and member of the Commodores, Grammy Award and Academy Award winner; 2003 Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree [60][65]
Noble Sissle “unknown” Jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, and singer of the Harlem Renaissance; lyricist of Shuffle Along which became the first hit musical on Broadway written by and about African-Americans [66][67]
Darnell Van Rensalier Beta Singer in the R&B group Shai [60]


[edit] Film, television and theatre

Tim Reid
Tim Reid
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Darryl M. Bell Delta Zeta Actor, best known for A Different World [16]
Benny Boom Pi Rho Director of music videos [16]
Rusty Cundieff Alpha Delta Actor, writer; director of Tales from the Hood, and the Chappelle's Show; correspondent on TV Nation [16]
Todd Duncan “unknown” First Black to sing with a major opera company and also the original Porgy in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; 1984 George Peabody Medal of Music recipient [16][68]
Derek Fordjour Delta Chi Producer of "The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority [69]
Gary Hardwick Epsilon Producer, writer, director of The Brothers, Deliver Us from Eva, "Radio", and Bring It On [16]
Rob Hardy Beta Nu Producer, writer, director and actor of films such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, and Trois [70]
Kefla Hare Xi Beta Cast Member, Road Rules: Down Under [16]
Gabriel Langley Beta Sigma Cast Member, best known for College Hill, the first African American reality television show [16]
Vaughn Lowery Alpha Spokesmodel for Joe Boxer [71][72]
William Packer Beta Nu Producer, writer, director and actor of films such as The Gospel, Pandora's Box, Stomp the Yard, and Trois [72]
Joseph C. Phillips Iota Zeta Lambda Actor in The Cosby Show, General Hospital, and Strictly Business, political commentator on NPR’s "News and Notes with Ed Gordon" [16]
Randal Pinkett "unknown" 4th Winner of NBC's reality show, The Apprentice; Rhodes Scholar [47][48]
Paul Robeson Nu NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate [27][73]
Keenen Ivory Wayans Gamma Phi Creator of comedy series In Living Color; Actor, comedian, writer, director; Emmy Award winner [16]
Jamar White Delta Chi Producer of "The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus", the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority [69]
Drew Watkins Beta Producer, Inside the NBA; 2-time Emmy Award winner [26]


[edit] Government, law, and public policy

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


[edit] Vice Presidents and Supreme Court

Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Hubert Humphrey Honorary 38th Vice President of the United States; 1968 Presidential candidate; Senator from Minnesota; Mayor of Minneapolis; 1979 Congressional Gold Medal and 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient [22][74]
Thurgood Marshall Nu First Black Justice of U.S. Supreme Court; Attorney in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; First Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; 1946 Spingarn Medal and 1993 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient [56][75]


[edit] Cabinet and Cabinet-level Ranks

Lee Brown
Lee Brown
Samuel Pierce
Samuel Pierce
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Lee P. Brown Epsilon Beta Director of National Drug Control Policy; First African-American Mayor of Houston, Texas [33][76]
Robert J. Brown “unknown” Special Assistant for Minority Affairs [2][77]
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. Psi Secretary of Transportation; First Black Supreme Court law clerk; co-author of the brief in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka; co-counsel on the landmark case, McLaughlin v. Florida, which established the constitutionality of interracial marriages; Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; [56][78]
Rayford Logan Omicron First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][79]
Samuel Pierce Alpha Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Martin Luther King Jr. and the New York Times in the important First Amendment case styled New York Times v. Sullivan; first African-American to serve on the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company [56][57]
Emmett Scott Honorary Special Assistant to the Secretary of War [51]
Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha Rho Secretary of Health and Human Services; Co-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine [16]


[edit] Members of the United States Congress

Further information: United States Congress
Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke
Danny Davis
Danny Davis
Ron Dellums
Ron Dellums
Chaka Fattah
Chaka Fattah
Al Green
Al Green
Adam Powell, Jr.
Adam Powell, Jr.
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Edward Brooke Beta Senator from Massachusetts; Attorney General of Massachusetts; Chairman Emeritus of World Policy Council; 1967 Spingarn Medal and 2004 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient [26][56][80]
Emanuel Cleaver Delta Theta Representative from Missouri; Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri [22][81]
Danny K. Davis “unknown” Representative from Illinois [82]
William Levi Dawson Theta Representative from Illinois [16]
Ron Dellums Xi Rho Representative from California; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; Mayor of Oakland [56][83][84]
Julian C. Dixon Gamma Xi Representative from California [56]
Chaka Fattah Zeta Omicron Lambda Representative from Pennsylvania [16]
Floyd H. Flake Zeta Gamma Lambda Representative from Illinois; President of Wilberforce University [18][19]
Harold Ford, Sr. Beta Omicron Representative from Tennessee; Legislator of Tennessee [56]
William H. Gray Rho Representative from Pennsylvania; House Majority Whip and House Democratic Whip; CEO of the United Negro College Fund [16]
Al Green Beta Nu Representative from Texas [82]
Earl F. Hilliard Alpha Rho Representative from Alabama; Legislator of Alabama [56]
Gregory W. Meeks Zeta Zeta Lambda Representative from New York; New York State Assembly [56]
Ralph Metcalfe Nu Xi Representative from Illinois; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; 1932 and 1936 Olympian [56][84]
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. “unknown” Representative from New York [56]
Charles B. Rangel Alpha Gamma Lambda Representative from New York; Co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus; First Black to chair the Committee on Ways and Means; New York State Assembly Representative [16][84][85]
David Scott Beta Nu Representative from Georgia [86]
Robert C. Scott Sigma Representative from Virginia [16]
Bennett M. Stewart “unknown” Representative from Illinois [20]


[edit] U.S. Governors and Lieutenant Governors

David Scott
David Scott
Charles Turnbull
Charles Turnbull
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Walter A. Gordon Alpha Epsilon 17th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands; Federal District Judge of the United States Virgin Islands [2][87]
Joe Rogers Omicron Tau Lieutenant Governor of Colorado [88]
Roy L. Schneider Beta 25th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands [26]
Charles Wesley Turnbull Gamma Iota 26th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands [89][88]
James R. Williams Alpha Tau Lieutenant Governor of Ohio candidate, 25th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [4][8]


[edit] Ambassadors

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton
Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Orison Rudolph Aggrey Gamma Iota Republic of The Gambia, Republic of Senegal, and Romania [56]
Archibald Carey, Jr “unknown” Diplomat [2][90]
Walter Carrington Sigma Republic of Senegal and Federal Republic of Nigeria [91][92]
Horace Dawson Nu Republic of Botswana; Director of the Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University; Chairman of the World Policy Council [11]
Frederick Douglass Omega Republic of Haiti; Anti-slavery activist [22][93]
Lionel Hampton Phi Goodwill Ambassador; Jazz percussionist and bandleader; National Medal of Arts recipient [60][62]
James A. Joseph Beta Sigma South Africa; Under Secretary of Interior [16]
Kenton Keith Upsilon State of Qatar [35]
Raphael Lanier Mu Lambda Liberia; First President of Texas Southern University [11]
Delano Lewis Upsilon South Africa; President and Chief Executive Officer of National Public Radio; President of The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company [16][94]
Donald McHenry Eta Tau United Nations [56]
John H. Morrow Delta Iota First United States Ambassador to Guinea after its independence; first U. S. Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [2][95]
Gerald Eustis Thomas “unknown” Guyana and Kenya [20][96]
Terence Todman “unknown” Republic of Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark, and Argentina [20][96]
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. Sigma Norway and Minister to Romania [54][97]
Franklin Williams “unknown” Republic of Ghana and the United Nations; President of the Phelps-Stokes Fund [16]
Andrew Young Beta The United Nations; Representative from Georgia; 2-term Mayor of Atlanta; 1990 Governor of Georgia candidate; 1978 Spingarn Medal, 1981 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and French Légion d'honneur recipient [22][27][98][99]


[edit] Mayors

Marion Barry
Marion Barry
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick
Marc Morial
Marc Morial
Kurt Schmoke
Kurt Schmoke
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Dennis Archer Alpha Upsilon Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; Mayor of Detroit, Michigan; First Black President of the American Bar Association [16][100]
Richard Arrington Gamma Kappa First Black Mayor of Birmingham [16]
Thomas V. Barnes “unknown” Mayor of Gary, Indiana [20]
Marion Barry Beta Xi Mayor of Washington, D.C.; first Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) [11]
Ted Berry Alpha Alpha First Black Mayor of Cincinnati; Board member of the NAACP [22][101]
Byron Brown Delta Epsilon Senator of New York; First Black Mayor of Buffalo [102]
Willie Brown Xi Rho First Black Mayor of San Francisco; Speaker of the California State Assembly [16][103]
David Dinkins Beta First Black Mayor of New York City [16]
Maynard Jackson Alpha Rho First Black and 3-term Mayor of Atlanta [16]
Harvey Johnson, Jr. Beta Omicron First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi [104]
Kwame Kilpatrick Beta Nu Mayor of Detroit [16]
Marc Morial Psi Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League [22][105]
Ernest Nathan Morial Beta Tau Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; namesake of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans [22]
Rudolph McCollum Beta Mayor of Richmond [26]
James McGee Xi First Black Mayor of Dayton [106]
Norm Rice Alpha Xi First and only African-American Mayor of Seatttle [22]
Eugene Sawyer Beta Upsilon Mayor of Chicago [33]
Kurt Schmoke Delta Lambda First Black Mayor of Baltimore; Rhodes Scholar [49][50]
Lionel Wilson Alpha Epsilon First Black Mayor of Oakland [22]


[edit] Judges and Lawyers

Seventy-five percent of all Black Male Lawyers are Alphas.[5]

Joe Brown
Joe Brown
Robert Carter
Robert Carter
Charles Houston
Charles Houston
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Robert Benham Eta Lambda Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia [13]
Joe Brown Kappa Eta Host of the syndicated show Judge Joe Brown; Presided over James Earl Ray’s last appeal for Ray's conviction for the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; [16][107]
Robert L. Carter Nu Pivotal role in Sweatt v. Painter, Brown v. Board of Education, and NAACP v. Alabama; U.S. District Court Judge; 2004 Spingarn Medal recipient [2][27][108]
Julius Chambers Gamma Beta Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University [14][15]
Christopher Darden Epsilon Mu Prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson [109]
Milton C. Davis Gamma Phi Assistant Attorney General of the state of Alabama who researched and wrote opinions which led Governor George Wallace to pardon Clarence Norris, the last known surviving defendant in international cause célèbre case of the Scottsboro Boys; 29th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][110]
Harry T. Edwards “unknown” Justice for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [56]
Ernest A. Finney, Jr. Delta Zeta Lambda Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; South Carolina House of Representatives; Interim President of South Carolina State University [16][20]
Charles Hamilton Houston Sigma chief architect of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategy for racial equality in dismantling the Jim Crow laws; First Black Editor of the Harvard Law Review; 1950 Spingarn Medal recipient [54][27][111]
Harry E. Johnson Beta Tau President of the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., which oversees the fundraising, design, and construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial; 31st General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][112]
Damon Keith Alpha Zeta Chief Justice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan who famously ruled in United States v. Sinclair (upheld in United States v. U.S. District Court) that President Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that Mitchell had authorized without first obtaining a search warrant; 1974 Spingarn Medal recipient [56][113]
Belford Lawson, Jr. Epsilon Co-founder of New Negro Alliance; succesfully argued in United States Supreme Court cases styled New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co. to safeguard the right to boycott, and Henderson v. United States that abolished segregation in railroad dining cars; 16th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][114]
Greg Mathis Gamma Lambda Host of television series Judge Mathis [115][116]
Jawn Sandifer Alpha Omicron Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who successfully argued Henderson v. United States [2][117]
Arthur Shores Alpha Beta Attorney in Lucy v. Adams which prevented the University of Alabama from denying admission to applicants solely on account of race or color. [2][118]
A.P. Tureaud Beta Attorney in Garner v. Louisiana which legalized sit-in protests at segregated private businesses and restaurants. [119][120]
Horace Ward “unknown” Senator of Georgia; first African American to serve on the federal bench in Georgia. [13][121]


[edit] Other U.S. political and legal figures

Roland Burris
Roland Burris
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
William T. Andrews “unknown” New York State Assembly [122]
Daniel T. Blue, Jr. Gamma Beta North Carolina House of Representatives; Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives; 2002 Democratic candidate for the United States Senate [56][123]
Roland Burris Beta Eta First Black Illinois Attorney General [124]
Al Edwards “unknown” Texas House of Representatives; considered the father of the Juneteenth Holiday [125]
Isiah Leggett Beta Sigma County Executive; Montgomery County, MD, first and only African-American elected to the county council [126]
Carl McCall Theta Zeta Legislator of New York; Comptroller of New York; 2002 Democratic candidate for Governor of New York [56][127]
William Byron Rumford Gamma Phi Lambda California State Legislature [128][129]
Albert Vann Alpha Xi Lambda New York State Assembly [130]
Herb Wesson Nu California State Assembly; Speaker of the California State Assembly [131]
Tyrone Yates Alpha Alpha Ohio House of Representatives [132]


[edit] Government officials outside the U.S.

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Stuart Hayward Beta House of Assembly of Bermuda [26]
Norman Washington Manley Beta Beta Lambda 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica, Founder of Jamaica's People's National Party, 1914 Rhodes Scholar [44][45]
Edward Richards Epsilon Theta Lambda First Premier of Bermuda [133]


[edit] Journalist and media personalities

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Ron Allen Psi News correspondent for NBC and ABC [134][135]
Tony Brown Alpha Upsilon Commentator of the syndicated television show; Tony Brown's Journal; founding dean of Howard University's School of Communication [16][136]
Malvin Russell Goode Omicron First Black news correspondent for ABC as a United Nations reporter [16]
Jay Harris Nu Theta Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS [137][138]
Roland S. Martin Pi Omicron Editor of the Chicago Defender, radio talk show host; contributor to CNN [139]
Stuart Scott Mu Zeta Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter [16]
Chuck Stone “unknown” Speechwriter for Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; First president of the National Association of Black Journalists; Tuskegee Airman [16][140][141]
Stan Verrett Beta Sportscaster for ESPN on SportsCenter and ESPNEWS [142]


[edit] Literature

Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Countee Cullen Eta Poet of the Harlem Renaissance [60]
Eric Jerome Dickey Kappa Eta Author [16]
E. Lynn Harris Kappa Kappa Author, playwright [16]
Chester Himes Kappa Author whose works include If He Hollers Let Him Go and a series of Harlem Detective novels [16]
Lawrence Ross Alpha Epsilon Author of The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities [16]
Carl Weber Beta Gamma Author [16]


[edit] Military Service

Samuel Gravely
Samuel Gravely
Winston E. Scott
Winston E. Scott
Johnnie Wilson
Johnnie Wilson
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Wesley A. Brown “unknown” Lieutenant Commander; First Black graduate from United States Naval Academy [143]
Roscoe Cartwright “unknown” General, United States Army [22]
Victor Daly Alpha French Croix de Guerre recipient [144]
Fred Gordon Mu Beta Lambda Brigadier General; First African-American First Captain of the West Point Academy [22][145]
Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. Gamma First African American Admiral, United States Navy; First African American to command a U.S. fleet. [16]
Benjamin Thurman Hacker Epsilon Mu Lambda Major General, United States Army [16]
Edward Honor Beta Sigma Rear Admiral, United States Navy [16]
James McCall “unknown” Major General Chief in the Pentagon Budget Office [22]
Winston E. Scott Alpha Phi Lambda Astronaut, Johnson Space Center [16]
Johnnie E. Wilson “unknown” Four Star General, United States Army [146]


[edit] Religion

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
John Hurst Adams “unknown” President of Congress of Black Churches [147]
Vinton R. Anderson “unknown” 92nd Bishop of African Methodist Episcopal Church; President of World Council of Churches [35]
Tyrone Crider “unknown” National Director of Operation PUSH [147][148]
Harold Davis “unknown” President of American Baptist Churches [147]
Cain Hope Felder Beta First national director of the United Methodist Black Caucus; Professor of Theology at Howard University and Princeton University; Editor of The African American Jubilee Bible [26][149]
T. J. Jemison Beta Upsilon Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); President of National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953 [16]
E. Edward Jones “unknown” President of National Baptist Convention, America [147]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Sigma 1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist; Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall [22][150][27]
Alfred J. Smith “unknown” President of Progressive National Baptist Convention [147]


[edit] Science

Sixty percent of all Black Male Doctors and sixty-five percent of all Black Male Dentists are Alphas.[5]

Garrett Morgan
Garrett Morgan
Earl Renfroe
Earl Renfroe
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Herman Branson Beta Gamma President of Central State University and Lincoln University; Co-discoverer of the Alpha helix; Sickle cell physicist [11][12]
James Comer Gamma Eta Prominent child psychiatrist; Founder of the Comer School Development Program at the Yale Child Study Center; associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine [16][151]
Lloyd Hall Alpha Mu Chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. Author of 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in foreign countries [152]
LaSalle Leffalle Kappa President of American College of Surgeons; President of American Cancer Society [16]
Garrett A. Morgan Delta Alpha Lambda Inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks) and a hair-straightening preparation; patented a type of traffic light signal [16][153]
Earl W. Renfroe “unknown” Orthodontist, for many years, he was acknowledged as one of the best hands-on clinical orthodontics instructors in the world; a dental facility in Barbados is named after Renfroe [154]
Louis Wade Sullivan Alpha Rho Secretary of Health and Human Services; CO-founder and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine [16]
Levi Watkins, Jr. Beta Omicron Chief of cardiovascular surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital; Performed the world’s first human implantation of the automatic implantable defibrillator; First African-American medical student at Vanderbilt University [16]


[edit] Service and social reform

Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
John Hope
John Hope
Charles S. Johnson
Charles S. Johnson
Marc Morial
Marc Morial
Channing Tobias
Channing Tobias
Max Yergan
Max Yergan
Whitney Young
Whitney Young
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Julius Chambers Gamma Beta Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University [14][15]
Frederick Douglass Omega United States Ambassador to Haiti; Anti-slavery activist [22][93]
W.E.B. Du Bois Epsilon
(Honorary)		 Co-founder of Niagara Movement and NAACP; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis; First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn Medal recipient [22][27]
Henry Edwards Beta World-famous sociologist [14]
E. Franklin Frazier Beta First Black President of the American Sociological Association; Sociologist on race relations; [16]
Lloyd L. Gaines Alpha Psi Central figure of one of the most important cases in the U.S. civil rights movement–Supreme Court case styled Gaines v. Canada [155]
Lester Granger Theta Zeta 3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban League [22]
Dick Gregory Beta Eta 1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social activist, writer [22][156]
George Haynes “unknown” First President of the National Urban League; First African American to receive a Ph.D. from Columbia University [157]
John Hope Eta Lambda First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient [13][27][28][29]
T. J. Jemison Beta Upsilon Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953 [16]
Charles S. Johnson Theta Editor of the National Urban League’s Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University [9]
Lyman T. Johnson Gamma Plaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949 [158]
Eugene K. Jones Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 2nd Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet [7][9]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Sigma 1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist; Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall [22][150]
Rayford Logan Omicron First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][79]
Jesse E. Moorland Beta Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center [2][159]
Marc Morial Psi Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League [22][105]
Floyd McKissick “unknown” 2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City [160][161]
Hugh Bernard Price “unknown” 7th President of the National Urban League [16]
Paul Robeson Nu NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate [27][73]
Jawn Sandifer Alpha Omicron Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who successfully argued Henderson v. United States [2][117]
Herman Sweatt Alpha Sigma Plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson [2]
Channing Heggie Tobias “unknown” Chairman of the NAACP, Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient [2][27]
Wyatt Tee Walker Gamma Co-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Civil and human rights activist [147][162]
Alfred Bitini Xuma “unknown” President of the African National Congress [2][163]
Max Yergan “unknown” 2nd President of the National Negro Congress; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient [2][27][164]
Whitney Young Beta Mu 4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge [165]


[edit] Sports

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

[edit] Olympics

Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe
Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe
Mike Powell
Mike Powell
Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Dave Albritton Kappa 1936 Olympian, high jump; inducted into the USA Track & Field Hall of Fame, 1980 [2]
Don Barksdale Gamma Xi 1948 Olympian and first African American to play with the USA Olympic Basketball Team; NBA player [166][167]
Walt Bellamy "unknown" 1960 Olympian NBA player [168]
Quinn Buckner Gamma Eta 1976 Olympian; NBA player [16][169]
Sayon Cooper Delta Xi 2000 Olympian, Track and Field [170]
Ralph Metcalfe Nu Xi Representative from Illinois; 1932 and 1936 Olympian [2][16]
Jesse Owens Kappa 1936 Olympian in Track and Field, Associated Press Athlete of the Year, 1936; 1976 Presidential Medal of Freedom and 1990 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; namesake of the Jesse Owen Memorial Stadium at Ohio State University [16][171]
Mike Powell Omicron Eta 1988 and 1992 Olympian, long jump [16]
Eddie Tolan Epsilon 1932 Olympian, 100 and 200 metres [170]
Lenny Wilkens Zeta Pi Lambda NBA player and coach; 1996 Olympian, Basketball Coach [16][172]
John Woodruff Omicron 1936 Olympian in Track and Field [173]
Kevin Young Gamma Xi 1988 and 1992 Olympian, Track and field [166][174]


[edit] American basketball

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Nate Archibald Theta Delta Lambda National Basketball Association (NBA) player [16]
Junior Bridgeman Delta Chi Lambda NBA player [170]
John O. Brown “unknown” Basketball coach for Dillard University [170]
Quinn Buckner Gamma Eta NBA player and coach [22]
Todd Day Kappa Kappa NBA player, WASL player of Lebanon [22]
Wayne Embry Delta Upsilon NBA player and General Manager; Basketball Hall of Fame [33]
Clyde Fletcher Kappa Kappa NBA player, Arkansas Razorbacks [175][176]
Chris Mills Eta Epsilon Omega NBA player [22]
Bobby Phills Beta Sigma NBA player, Continental Basketball Association player [33]
Wes Unseld ”unknown” NBA player and coach [22]
John "Hot Rod" Williams Rho Iota NBA player [22]


[edit] American football

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Bobby Bell Mu National Football League (NFL) player, Pro Football Hall of Fame [177][178]
Wes Chandler Theta Sigma NFL player, Four time Pro Bowl player [16]
Michael Clayton Nu Psi NFL player [179]
Greg Coleman Beta Nu NFL player, First African American punter in the NFL [170]
Donald Driver Delta Kappa NFL player [179]
Carl Eller Mu NFL player, 2004 Pro Football Hall of Fame [180]
Mel Farr, Jr. Gamma Xi NFL player [166][181]
Mike Farr Gamma Xi NFL player [166][182]
Charles Fisher Pi Mu NFL player [183]
Barry Foster “unknown” NFL player [183]
Derrick Gaffney Theta Sigma NFL player [184][185]
Nesby Glasgow Alpha Xi NFL player [186][187]
Barrett Green Pi Mu NFL player [188]
Sammy Green Theta Sigma NFL player [184][189]
Rosey Grier Gamma Nu NFL player; Singer; Actor, best known for The Thing with Two Heads; helped apprehend Sirhan Sirhan in the immediate aftermath of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination [190]
Charles Haley Xi Delta NFL player, Five time Pro Bowl player [22]
Michael Jackson Mu Xi NFL player [22]
Trezelle Jenkins Epsilon NFL player [183]
Ron Johnson "unknown" NFL player, Chairman of the National Football Foundation [191]
Dhani Jones Epsilon NFL player [170]
Steve Jordan Alpha Gamma NFL player [170]
Carnell Lake Gamma Xi NFL player [16]
Henry Lawrence Beta Nu NFL player [170]
Mark Lee Alpha Xi NFL player [186][192]
Mike Merriweather Nu Chi NFL player, Three-time Pro Bowl player [170]
Bill Munsey Mu NFL player [177]
Adrian Murrell Pi Mu NFL player [183]
Vincent Newsome Alpha Xi NFL player, (current assistant director of pro personnel for Baltimore Ravens) [193]
Roman Oben ”unknown” NFL player [194]
Brig Owens Alpha Alpha NFL player [170]
Michael Pittman Epsilon Beta NFL player [179]
Fritz Pollard Alpha Gamma One of the first two Black players in the NFL in 1920; first Black head coach in the NFL; 2005 Pro Football Hall of Fame [22]
Marcus Pollard Epsilon Kappa NFL player [16]
Jethro Pugh Beta Zeta NFL player [170]
Ken Riley Beta Nu NFL player [195]
Paul Robeson Nu NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate [27][73]
Eddie Robinson Beta Iota Lambda Head of Grambling State University football program for 56 years, established himself as the winningest coach in college football history, becoming the first coach to record 400 wins, and recorded 408 total career wins [170]
Art Shell Gamma Chi Lambda NFL player, Four-time Pro Bowl player; Pro Football Hall of Fame; Second Black head coach in the NFL [33]
Max Starks Theta Sigma NFL player [196]
Sandy Stephens Mu NFL player; First African American All-American Quarterback [177][197]
Lemuel Stinson Eta Upsilon NFL player [170]
John Thornton Pi Mu NFL player [183]
Gene Upshaw Gamma Chi Lambda AFL player; 1987 Pro Football Hall of Fame; President of National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) [16]
Reggie Williams Theta Zeta NFL player [170]
Claudius Wright “unknown” NFL player [183]
Eric Wright Zeta Alpha NFL player, Two-time Pro Bowl player [33]
Jason Wright Alpha Mu NFL player [170]


[edit] Other Athletics

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Gerald Harris Pi Professional NHB and mixed martial arts fighter. FCF, TFC, and International Fight League [198][199]


[edit] Other Alphas

Name Original Chapter Notability Reference
Raymond Cannon Mu First Editor of The Sphinx, the official publication of Alpha Phi Alpha; 12th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha [8][22]
George Fletcher Alpha
(Honorary)		 First honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha [51]
Henry Minton Zeta Omicron Lambda Co-founder of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity; co-founder of Mercy Hospital of Philadelphia; 1891 Valedictorian of Phillips Exeter Academy [40][200]
Hilyard Robinson “unknown” Architect, Designed buildings for Howard University, Hampton University and Langston Terrace Dwellings in Washington, D.C. [11]
Ferdinand Rousserve Sigma Lambda Designer of the second fraternity shield that is currently used by Alpha Phi Alpha [54]


[edit] General Presidents

v • d • e
General Presidents of Alpha Phi Alpha [201]
Moses A. Morrison, 1908-1909 • Roscoe C. Giles, 1910 • Frederick H. Miller, 1911 • Charles H. Garvin, 1912-1913 • Henry L. Dickason, 1914-1915 • Henry A. Callis, 1915 • Howard H. Long, 1916-1917 • William A. Pollard, 1917-1918 • Daniel D. Fowler, 1919 • Lucius L. McGee, 1920 • Simeon S. Booker, 1921-1923 • Raymond W. Cannon, 1924-1927 • Bert A. Rose, 1928-1931 • Charles H. Wesley, 1932-1940 • Rayford W. Logan, 1941-1945 • Belford V. Lawson, Jr., 1946-1951 • Antonio M. Smith, 1952-1954 • Frank L. Stanley, 1955-1957 • Myles A. Paige, 1957-1960 • William H. Hale, 1961-1962 • T. Winston Cole, Sr., 1963-1964 • Lionel H. Newsom, 1965-1968 • Ernest N. Morial, 1968-1972 • Walter Washington, 1973-1976 • James R. Williams, 1977-1980 • Ozell Sutton, 1981-1984 • Charles C. Teamer, 1985-1988 • Henry Ponder, 1989-1992 • Milton C. Davis, 1993-1996 • Adrian L. Wallace, 1997-2000 • Harry E. Johnson, 2001-2004 • Darryl R. Matthews, Sr. 2005-current


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House of Alpha

GOODWILL is the monarch of this house. Men, unacquainted, enter, shake hands, exchange greetings, and depart friends. Cordiality exists among all who abide within.

I am the eminent expression of friendship. Character and temperament change under my dominant power. Lives once touched by me become tuned, and are thereafter, amiable, kindly, fraternal.

I inspire the musician to play noble sentiments, and assist the chemist to convert ungenerous personalities into individuals of great worth. I destroy all ignoble impulses. I constantly invoke principles which make for common brotherhood, and the echo resounds in all communities, and princely men are thereby recognized. Education, health, music, encouragement, sympathy, laughter—all these are species of interest given on self-invested capital.

Tired moments find me a delightful treat, hours of sorrow, a shrine of understanding—at all times I am faithful to the creed of companionship.

To a few, I am the castle of dreams—ambitious, successful, hopeful dreams. To many, I am the poetic palace where human feeling is rhymed to celestial motives; to the great majority, I am the treasury of good fellowship.

In fact, I am the college of friendship; the university of brotherly love; the school for the better making of men.

I AM ALPHA PHI ALPHA!
by Sydney P. Brown[2]
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