Alpha Phi Alpha

Mu Iota Chapter

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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity founded on December 4, 1906 at Cornell University. Alpha Phi Alpha develops leaders, promotes brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our communities. Their objectives are to stimulate the ambition of its members, to prepare them for the greatest usefulness in the causes of humanity, freedom, and dignity of the individual, to encourage the highest and noblest form of manhood, to aid downtrodden humanity in its efforts to achieve higher social, economic and intellectual status.

At the beginning of the 1975-76 school year, a group of men in various colleges at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville wanted to contribute more to the surrounding community while forming their own brotherhood. These students aspired to become members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, and on, May 29, 1976, the Mu Iota Chapter was chartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. In October 2022, 15 Ice-Cold brothers of the Mu Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. returned to Rocky Top.