MO HB632

Designates December 4 as "Alpha Phi Alpha Day" in Missouri to commemorate the founding of the first Black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity for African-Americans

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded on December 4, 1906, at Cornell University by seven men known as the "Seven Jewels": Dr. Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy

The fraternity currently has more than 290,000 members across more than 730 chapters on five continents with the motto "First of All, Servants of All, We Shall Transcend All"

Notable Alpha Phi Alpha members include W.E.B. DuBois, Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Owens, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Beta Lambda Chapter, chartered in Kansas City, Missouri in 1919, is the fraternity's second-oldest alumni chapter and the first established west of the Mississippi River