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1906
"The Phirst"

Alpha Phi Alpha, The Pride of our hearts and loved by us dearly art thou, We cherish thy precepts, thy banner shall be raised.


Famous Alphas

Over the years, the Fraternity has grown steadily in influence. It integrated its racial membership in 1945 and it has expanded to the extent that there are now over 700 chapters located throughout the U.S., Caribbean Islands, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the West Indies. Many great and inspirational men have crossed the burning sands into the oasis of
Alpha Phi Alpha. Some of these outstanding men are:

 Federal Government
Thurgood Marshall
Ronald Dellums
Julian Dixon
Harry Edwards
Harold Ford
Damon Keith
Samuel Pierce
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Charles Rangle
Aubrey Robinson
Gerald Thomas
Edward W. Brooke
Lee P. Brown
U.W. Clemon
William Coleman
William H. Gray
Earl Hilliard
James A. Joseph
Ralph Metcalfe
Andrew Young








Local and State Government
Dennis Archer
Richard Arrington
Thomas V. Barnes
Theodore Berry
David Dinkins
Maynard Jackson
Marion Barry
Henry Marsh
Ernest N. Morial
Eugene Sawyer
Lionel Wilson
Willie Brown
Emmanuel Cleaver
Charles H. Davenport
Marc H. Morial
Charl es Price
Norman Rice
Eugene Sawyer










Sports Figures
Quinn Buckner
Wes Chandler
Greg Coleman
Wayne Embry
Charles Haley
Mike Merriweather
Brig Owens
Jesse Owens
Jethro Pugh
Eddie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Art Shell
Gene Upshaw
Lenny Wilkins
Wes Unseld
Lemuel Stinson
Reggie Williams
Eric Wright
Walt Bellamy
Junior Bridgeman
John O. Brown
Carnell Lake
Mike Powell
Fritz Pollard
Eddie Tolan



Civic Leaders
W.E.B. DuBois
Dick Gregory
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Robeson
Lester Grange
Charles Hamilton Houston
Hugh B. Price
Whitney M. Young Jr.








Media / Entertainment
Darryl Bell
Tony Brown
Mal Goode
John H. Johnson
Chuck Stone
Gerald Albright
Countee Cullen
Marc Gay
Duke Ellington
Keith Garrett
Lionel Hampton
Donny Hathaway
Carl Martin
Darnell Van Rensalier



Educators/Scholars
Charles H. Wesely
John Hope Franklin
George Gore
Fredrick Patterson
Henry Ponder
Earl Richardson
Walter Washington
James Cheek
John Slaughter
Fredrick Humphries
Benjamin Payton
Norman Francis
E. Franklin Frazier




Military
Gen. Roscoe Cartwright
Brig. Gen. Fred A. Gorden
Adm. Samuel Gravely
Rear Adm. Benjamin Hacker
Maj. Gen. Edward Honor
Maj. Gen. James McCall
Com. Winston Scott



Science/Medicine
James Comer
Joseph Gayles
Lasalle Lefall
Garrett Morgan
Louis Sullivan
Levi Watkins
Religion
Bishop John Hurst Adams
Harold Davis
T.J. Jemison
E. Edward Jones
Wyatt Tee Walker




The Founding Jewels Famous Alphas