The Gamma Chapter

The third chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., chartered at Virginia Union University. More than a century of scholarship, brotherhood and service to all mankind.

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Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones Founder of Alpha Phi Alpha · Virginia Union alumnus
Chartered Gamma · December 30, 1907

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Three chapters in, a legacy that never stopped.

Founded December 4, 1906 at Cornell University, Alpha Phi Alpha became the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. On December 30, 1907, Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones — himself a Virginia Union graduate — returned to his alma mater and chartered Gamma with seven charter members, carrying the light south.

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The Charter Members

Virginia Union University · 1907

Simeon S. Booker

Ferdinand D. Bluford

Compton A. Cleveland

Beale Elliott

Richard P. Graves

James M. Lewis

Cecil L. Rowlette

1907 Year chartered

3rd Chapter of the fraternity

97 Lines on record

382 Brothers in the lineage

1906 → Today

A century of Gamma

1907

Gamma is chartered

On December 30, 1907, Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones returns to his alma mater and charters Gamma, the third chapter of the fraternity, with seven charter members at Virginia Union University in Richmond.