Rooted in scholarship, brotherhood, service, advocacy, and the uplifting of humanity.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-American men.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, during a time when Black students faced exclusion, isolation, and limited access to the mutual support available to many of their peers.
Out of that need arose a brotherhood committed to leadership, academic excellence, character, fellowship, and service. Since its founding, Alpha Phi Alpha has grown into a global fraternity whose influence reaches across campuses, communities, professions, and generations.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. develops leaders, promotes brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our communities.
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.
First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All.
Manly Deeds, Scholarship, and Love for All Mankind.
-Brother Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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