Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Alpha Phi Alpha is the first Black Intercollegiate fraternity and was founded at Cornell University in 1906 with seven founders: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity has several objectives such as, “to stimulate the ambition of its members, to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in the causes of humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual, to encourage the highest and noblest form of manhood, and to aid downtrodden humanity in its efforts to achieve higher social, economic and intellectual status,” (Home - Alpha Phi Alpha (apa1906.net) ). Alpha Phi Alpha's Omicron Chapter in the University of Pittsburgh was founded in 1913 and was Pitt's first recognized minority group. The founders of this chapter are Richard Mark Fowler Jr., William Robert Smalls, Wray Martin Banks, Arthur Daniel Stevenson, John Nathaniel Browne, Joseph Price Dancy, and Theodore Wilson Primas. Some significant events of the Omicron chapter include the Black and Gold Ball and the annual Steel City Step Show.
Citations:
Staff, Pitt News, and Kathleen Fennell / Staff Writer. 2013. “Alpha Phi Alpha Celebrates 100 Years on Pitt’s Campus.” The Pitt News. January 18, 2013. https://pittnews.com/article/12161/archives/alpha-phi-alpha-celebrates-100-years-on-pitts-campus/.
“Home - Alpha Phi Alpha.” 2018. Alpha Phi Alpha. 2018. https://apa1906.net/.