Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded with the intent of college students to create closer contacts with each other than their classrooms permitted, different students among them took the lead in calling these meetings which were in formal in every detail. Thus, the creation of a social study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally and socially, at Cornell was formed. After several years and various discussions, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity was established at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on Tuesday, December 4th, 1906.
