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Alpha Phi Alpha, the first Black intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Originally a literary and social studies club, it evolved into a fraternity a year later.
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April 25, 1944 Frederick Douglass Patterson, the president of Tuskegee Institute, with Mary McLeod Bethune and others, incorporates the United Negro College Fund in Washington, […]
Janet Collins becomes the first black dancer to appear at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera in New York. Her journey is the subject of an animated […]
Sept. 20, 1847 William Leidesdorff is elected to the San Francisco Town Council, becoming one of California’s first Black elected officials. He later became the […]