Which of the following individuals is a founder of Alpha Phi Alpha?

• A. George Washington Carver
• B. Henry Arthur Callis
• C. Martin Luther King Jr.
• D. Frederick Douglass

Answer: (B)

Alpha Phi Alpha was founded at Cornell University in 1906 by seven men who created the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity for African American men. One of those seven founders is Henry Arthur Callis, who went on to become a physician and leader. He helped establish the fraternity’s mission of scholarship, leadership, and service, along with the other founders—Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelly, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy. The other individuals listed were notable figures in their own right, but not founders of Alpha Phi Alpha.