Established on the campus of Cornell University in the fall of
1905, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity began as an organization to meet
the needs of a handful of male African American college students.
Founded with ideals of civic action and community uplift, Alpha Phi
Alpha was established almost 40 years after the end of the Civil
War and just a few years after the end of The Nadir-the period when
institutional racism was worse than at any other post-bellum
period. Exemplified by its founders, known as The Jewels, the first
black intercollegiate fraternity represented virtues such as
brotherhood, scholarship, and social progress. Important leaders
such as Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Hubert
Humphrey, Paul Robeson, Cornel West, W. E. B. Dubois, Martin Luther
King Jr., Edward Brook, and Duke Ellington constitute just a small
number of those who have been initiated into the ranks of Alpha.
Despite the fraternity's historical prominence, a question lingers:
have the organization and its members remained faithful to the
precepts articulated by the founding members? In Alpha Phi Alpha: A
Case Study Within Black Greekdom, Gregory S. Parks aims to answer
this question through a collection of original essays, written by
members of the fraternity and scholars in African American studies,
education, political science, and history. Alpha Phi Alpha examines
the very essence of the organization, the meaning and identity of
the fraternity, and also ascertains whether and to what degree the
organization has drifted from its early ideals. Drawing from
Alpha's history, national magazines, and archives, as well as
relying on interviews with national officers and lay members, Parks
and his contributors will grapple with the growing body of
empirical, critical, and historical scholarship on Black
Greek-letter Organizations (BGLOs). Gregory S. Parks is coeditor of
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the
Vision (UPK). He has edited two additional books on Black
Greek-letter organizations, as well as a book on diversity within
college fraternities and sororities. A life member of Alpha Phi
Alpha Fraternity, Inc., he received his PhD in psychology from the
University of Kentucky and his JD at Cornell Law School.
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