IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 768 
Honoring Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.®, on reaching the historic 
milestone of 118 years of brotherhood as ‘‘Servants of All’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. 
HORSFORD, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, and Mr. SCOTT 
of Virginia) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.®, on reaching 
the historic milestone of 118 years of brotherhood as 
‘‘Servants of All’’. 
Whereas Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.®, was founded on 
December 4, 1906, at Cornell University in Ithaca, New 
York, as the first intercollegiate fraternity founded by Af-
rican-American men affectionately known as ‘‘The Seven 
Jewels’’: Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, 
Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel 
Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Wood-
son Tandy; 
Whereas their mission is to develop leaders and promote 
brotherhood and academic excellence while providing 
service and advocacy to their communities; 
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Whereas the Fraternity, which is headquartered in Baltimore, 
Maryland, includes more than 720 college and alumni 
chapters and general-organization members, serving com-
munities in the United States, and other parts of North 
America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia; 
Whereas the Fraternity, whose motto is ‘‘First of All, Serv-
ants of All, We Shall Transcend All’’, has long stood at 
the forefront of the African-American community’s fight 
for civil rights through Alpha men such as Reverend Dr. 
Martin Luther King, Jr.; late former Congressman Adam 
Clayton Powell; late former Supreme Court Justice 
Thurgood Marshall; legendary activist, actor and per-
former Paul Robeson, former Ambassador Andrew 
Young; General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., former chairman 
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; late former Senator Edward 
Brooke; scholar, Cornel West; Maryland Governor Wes 
Moore; Senator Raphael Warnock; Congressman Steven 
Horsford, former chairman of the Congressional Black 
Caucus; five other Members of Congress; numerous State 
and local lawmakers across the United States, as well as 
President of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Boakai, Sr.; 
and 
Whereas Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.®, which was re-
sponsible for and led the effort to erect the MLK Memo-
rial, engages in general programs, which include ‘‘Broth-
er’s Keeper’’, which advocates and improves the lives of 
its senior members and members with disabilities, as well 
as their spouses and widows, ‘‘A Voteless People Is A 
Hopeless People’’ that engages in voter registration, en-
gagement, and empowerment, ‘‘Go-to-High School, Go-to- 
College’’, which concentrates on the importance of com-
pleting secondary and collegiate education as a road to 
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advancement, and ‘‘Project Alpha’’, which is designed to 
provide education, motivation, and skill-building on issues 
of responsibility, relationships, teen pregnancy, and sexu-
ally transmitted diseases for young males ages 12 to 15 
years of age: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Original Resolu-
tion Honoring Alpha Phi Alpha’’. 
SEC. 2. RECOGNITION. 
The House of Representatives congratulates and 
commends Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.®, on 118 
years of service. 
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