List of Alpha Phi Alpha Brothers - Service and Social Reform

Service and Social Reform

Name Original chapter Notability References
Julius Chambers Gamma Beta Attorney in the Supreme Court case styled Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education; 3rd Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; President of North Carolina Central University
Frederick Douglass Omega
(Honorary)		 United States Ambassador to Haiti; Anti-slavery activist
W. E. B. Du Bois Epsilon
(Honorary)		 Co-founder of Niagara Movement and NAACP; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis; First African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University; 1920 Spingarn Medal recipient
Henry Edwards Beta World-famous sociologist
E. Franklin Frazier Beta First Black President of the American Sociological Association; Sociologist on race relations;
Lloyd L. Gaines Alpha Psi Central figure of one of the most important cases in the U.S. civil rights movement–Supreme Court case styled Gaines v. Canada
Lester Granger Theta Zeta 3rd Executive Secretary of the National Urban League
Dick Gregory Beta Eta 1968 Presidential candidate; comedian, social activist, writer
George Haynes "unknown" First President of the National Urban League; First African American to receive a PhD from Columbia University
John Hope Eta Lambda First Black President of Morehouse College; President of Atlanta University; Co-founder of the Niagara Movement and NAACP; 4th President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1936 Spingarn Medal recipient
T. J. Jemison Beta Upsilon Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; President of the National Baptist Convention; Organized the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott of 1953
Charles S. Johnson Theta Editor of the National Urban League's Opportunity magazine; First Black President of Fisk University
Lyman T. Johnson Gamma Plaintiff whose successful legal challenge opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students in 1949
Eugene K. Jones Alpha Co-founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity; 2nd Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet
Martin Luther King, Jr. Sigma 1962 Nobel Peace Prize; Civil rights activist; Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established in honor; 1957 Spingarn Medal, 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 2004 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; first African American with a memorial on the National Mall
Martin Luther King III "Eta Lambda" President and CEO of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Rayford Logan Omicron First Executive Director of the National Urban League; Member of President Franklin D Roosevelt's Black Cabinet; 2nd Executive Director of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); 1980 Spingarn Medal recipient; 15th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha
Joseph Lowery Eta Lambda Co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); delivered the benediction at the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009; 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
Jesse E. Moorland Beta Co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH); namesake of Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Marc Morial Psi Louisiana State Legislature; Mayor of New Orleans; 8th CEO of the National Urban League
Floyd McKissick "unknown" 2nd President of Congress of Racial Equality; Founder of Soul City
Hugh Bernard Price Eta Alpha Lambda 7th President of the National Urban League
Paul Robeson Nu NFL player, Actor and singer; social activist, 1945 Spingarn Medal recipient; Stalin Peace Prize laureate
Jawn Sandifer Alpha Omicron Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court; one of two staff lawyers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) who successfully argued Henderson v. United States
Ozell Sutton Pi Lambda Co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children; 2012 Congressional Gold Medal recipient; 26th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
Heman Sweatt Alpha Sigma Plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case styled Sweatt v. Painter that successfully challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of racial segregation established by the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson
Channing Heggie Tobias Eta Chairman of the NAACP, Director of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; 1948 Spingarn Medal recipient
Wyatt Tee Walker Gamma Co-founder and 3rd Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); Civil and human rights activist
Alfred Bitini Xuma "unknown" President of the African National Congress
Max Yergan Theta 2nd President of the National Negro Congress; Co-founder of the International Council on African Affairs; 1933 Spingarn Medal recipient
Whitney Young Beta Mu 4th President of the National Urban League; 1968 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; namesake of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge

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