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Alpha Phi Alpha does not idly boast of its record but does take inspiration out of its significant and evolving past, which gives challenges to the present and the future. BRO. H. COUNCILL TRENHOLM Director of Educational Activities, 1940
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At its July 1905 meeting in Buffalo, New York, the Niagara Movement issued a Declaration of Principles in which it proclaimed that, “persistent manly agitation is the way to liberty.” Precursor to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity in 1906 and the NAACP in 1909, the Niagara Movement insisted that, “…the voice of protest…must never cease…so long as America is unjust.”1 The Niagara Movement had a profound influence on the founding of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and its enduring legacy. Jewel Henry Arthur Callis, in Bro. Charles H. Wesley’s biography, related that, 1 The Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles. 1905
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