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⩥ Purpose of Alpha Phi Alpha.
Answer: Started as a social study and support group for African
American men facing racial prejudice.
⩥ Founding Date of Alpha Phi Alpha.
Answer: December 4th, 1906.
⩥ First Meeting Location.
Answer: Held at 421 North Albany Street at the residence of Mr. Edward
P. Newton.
⩥ First Meeting Caller.
Answer: C.C. Poindexter called the first meeting.
⩥ Name Proposer of Alpha Phi Alpha.
Answer: George Biddle Kelly proposed the name, Dr. Henry Arthur
Callis came up with it.
,⩥ Fraternity Colors.
Answer: Old Gold and Black proposed by Jewel Robert Harold Ogle.
⩥ First Initiates.
Answer: Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones, Lemuel Graves, and Gordon
Jones on October 30th, 1906.
⩥ Decision to Become a Fraternity Date.
Answer: December 4th, 1906.
⩥ Three Stages of Development.
Answer: Social Study Club, Literary Society, Fraternity.
⩥ Designer of the Fraternity Pin.
Answer: Jewel Vertner Woodson Tandy.
⩥ CC Poindexter.
Answer: A graduate student in the College of Agriculture who saw the
need for Black students on Cornell's campus.
⩥ First Initiation Banquet Date and Location.
Answer: October 30, 1906 at Masonic Hall, Odds Fellow Hall, Red
Man's Hall.
, ⩥ CC Poindexter's Resignation Reason.
Answer: Believed 'fraternity has no place in the hearts of colored
students'. And 'they lack the cultural framework to build a fraternity"
⩥ Regular Meeting Place.
Answer: 411 E. State Street in Ithaca, New York.
⩥ Resigned Member Before Becoming a Fraternity.
Answer: C.C. Poindexter
⩥ Mother of Alpha.
Answer: Annie Colman Singleton, named at the convention in NYC in
1939.
⩥ Incorporation Price of Alpha.
Answer: Incorporated for $25.27, minus a $0.27 discount for a total of
$25.00.
⩥ First Incorporation Date and Location.
Answer: January 29, 1908 in Albany, NY.
⩥ Second Incorporation Date and Location.