Join all of us here at V-103 in wishing the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. a very Happy Founder’s Day. ΑΦΑ is the oldest intercollegiate historically black fraternity and was founded at Cornell University on December 4, 1906. It is the largest predominantly African-American intercollegiate fraternity and one of the ten largest intercollegiate fraternities in the United States.
Alpha Phi Alpha addresses social issues such as apartheid, AIDS, urban housing, and other economic, cultural, and political issues of interest to people of color. In fact, Alpha Phi Alpha was directly responsible for the conception, funding, and construction of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial next to the National Mall in Washington DC.
Take some time to check out some notable members of this historic organization below!
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activist, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and one of the most influential public figures to ever live. King is most known for advancing civil rights for African American through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience.
Ambassador Andrew Jackson Young is a pastor and a civil right leader who later in life became the executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was a close confidant to Martin Luther King, Jr. and he also served as a United State Congressman, United State ambassador to the United Nations during the Carter Administration, and he was also the and 55th Mayor Of Atlanta.
Raphael Warnock is an American Baptist pastor and politician serving as a US Senator from Georgia since 2021. Warnock has been the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church since 2005.