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PROVENANCE
Gift from the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., in 1998 and 2002.
AGENCY HISTORY
Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek letter organization
for black college students, was organized at Cornell University in
1906. The Psi Chapter was founded at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1920. In addition to Penn, the Chapter has also represented other
schools in the area, which include Villanova University, St. Joseph's
College, LaSalle University, Drexel University, and Temple University.
In recent decades, the Chapter established such programs as an Annual
Career Conference, a Clothing Drive, a petitioning to establish Martin
Luther King's birthday as a national holiday and a letter campaign
jointly sponsored with the Penn Coalition of Voter Rights for extension
of the Voting Rights Act of 1964.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
This collection documents the development of the fraternity since
its birth in 1906 and especially its growth in recent decades. The
collection includes the fraternity's charter administration guide,
the Psi Chapter's constitution and official roster, records of the
fraternity's conventions, anniversary celebration files, programs
of various kinds of activities hosted by the Chapter, correspondence,
membership listings, and issues of the fraternity's main journal publication--Sphinx.
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