MO HB567

Designates December 4 as "Alpha Phi Alpha Day" in Missouri, encouraging citizens to observe with appropriate activities and events

Commemorates Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., founded December 4, 1906, at Cornell University as the first black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity for African-Americans

Recognizes the seven founding members 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

Notes the fraternity currently has more than 290,000 members and over 730 chapters across five continents

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