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Since its founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world.

Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the "Jewels" of the Fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy.

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On November 22nd 1952 in Lawrenceville, Virginia Saint Paul's College experienced the birth of the Delta Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha sparking a reveloution on the campus that would see the best and brightest come through the ranks and change the world forever.

Founders of Delta Tau : Allen Burwell, Ceaser Beckett, Rufus Abernathy, Fred D. Thompson, Robert Neals, Wesley Hall, George Sample, James C. Wright, and Robert Patterson

FEW ARE CHOSEN....AND FEW ARE PHROZEN!