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WELCOME TO LIBERIA

WILLIAM R. TOLBERT, JR.  President of Liberia

[[image - black and white photograph of William Tolbert]]

The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the pioneer among Black Greek letter organizations, having been organized at Cornell University in the year 1906 by seven Black students. Since the forming of that first Chapter growth and expansion has resulted in the fraternity now having four-hundred eighty-five chapters in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, with a membership of over sixty thousand.

This Fraternity has, as an organization, been in the forefront of Civil Rights activities for many decades. Its officers and representatives have actively participated in every movement of the Civil Rights agenda and given both financial and personal support to other organizations in their endeavors. The fraternity each year contributes thousands of dollars toward the support of the United Negro College Fund, the N.A.A.C.P., The Urban League, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, C.O.R.E. and other organizations.

In addition to its support of organizations, the fraternity makes hundreds of scholarship grants and loans to minority students through its Education Foundation. It maintains an endowed memorial fund at Cornell University out of which scholarship aid is granted to students attending that University.

Through its National Building Foundation it has sponsored the construction and maintenance of low and middle income housing in such cities as St. Louis, Gary, Akron, Charlotte, Inkster, Los Angeles and Louisville. The Foundation also maintains or supervises college housing on the campuses of Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Indiana, Morehouse College, Ohio State University, Howard University, Columbia University and the cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, New York and Detroit. 

Included among the membership of the fraternity are twenty-eight of the Black College Presidents, eight of the sixteen Black members of Congress, four of the Black Mayors, forty-eight of the nation's Black judges and such distinguished persons as the late W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, Edward Brooke, Adam Clayton Powell, Thurgood Marshall.

The fraternity maintains its modern headquarters at 4432 Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, Illinois, which is fully staffed under the direction of an Executive Director and two Assistant Executive Directors.

The National Convention for 1976 will be held in part at the New York Hilton Hotel, New York City, July 30 to August 3, and in part at the Ducor International Hotel, Monrovia, Liberia, August 4 to August 9. The convention is expected to attract more than five thousand members of the fraternity with their wives and children. The convention chairman is Attorney William Decker Clarke of New York City.

SPECIAL ADDENDUM

FRIDAY EVENING — 9:00 P.M. — JULY 30
Discoteque Party — HILTON HOTEL, Grand Ballroom

SATURDAY, JULY 31
Boat Tour (Women and Children) — 9:00 A.M.
Fashion Show (Women and Invited Guests) — 3:00 P.M.
Theatre Party (Delegates and Wives) — 7:00 P.M. (WIZ is the proposed show)
INTER-GREEK DANCE — 10:00 P.M. (Given by INTER-GREEK Council of New York)

SUNDAY AUGUST 1
FEE PUBLIC PROGRAM — Formal Attire (Proposed for Avery Fisher Hall)
Symphony of the New World with Guest Artist
Reception to follow at Hilton Hotel

Note:  There will be an Exhibit of Documents, Photographs, Recordings, etc., relating to the participation of BLACKS in the American Revolution. Although the exhibit will be on display beginning on Friday Evening, the high point will be after the Sunday Concert when a reception will be held. All members of the BLACK CAUCUS and other dignataries from the City and the adjoining states are being invited to participate.