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S A T U R D A Y , J A N U A R Y 1 8 , 2 0 1 4

Living The DreamA W A R D S B R U N C H

to the youth of

The eTa Line of 1964thank you for your continued service

to our fraternity

the Alpha Gamma Lambda

chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Table of Contents4 Order Of Events 5 History of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.6 History of Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter7 The Brotherhood8 Keynote Speaker’s Biographical Sketch9 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom11 Congratulatory Letters

Order Of EvenTs

OpeningBro. Larry scott BLackmon

master of ceremony

WelcOme Addressms. diana sainviL

miss BLack new york 2014

invOcAtiOnBro. cLement James

Brunch served

presentAtiOn Of AWArds

KeynOte Addressmr. rashad raymond moore

cOmmunity leAdership AWArdmr. seth andrew

lifetime Achievement AWArdmr. ricky “sLick rick” waLters

cOrettA scOtt King AWArdms. BarBara askins

distinguished AlphA AWArdBro. daBney montgomery

Bro. renard moBLey, enrique riggs

and the aLpha Line of 1964

BenedictiOnBro. richard price

clOsing remArKsBro. daryL parker, chapter president

AlphA hymn

The History of

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Since its founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world.

Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the “Jewels” of the Fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chap-man, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy.

The Fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally and socially, at Cornell. The Jewel founders and early leaders of the Fraternity succeeded in laying a firm foundation for Alpha Phi Alpha’s principles of scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity.

Alpha Phi Alpha chapters were established at other colleges and universities, many of them his-torically black institutions, soon after the founding at Cornell. The first Alumni Chapter was es-tablished in 1911. While continuing to stress academic excellence among its members, Alpha also recognized the need to help correct the educational, economic, political, and social injustices faced by African-Americans. Alpha Phi Alpha has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community’s fight for civil rights through leaders such as: W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Brooke, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, William Gray, Paul Robeson, and many others. True to its form as the “first of firsts,” Alpha Phi Alpha has been interracial since 1945.

The hisTory of

Alpha Gamma Lambda

The roots of Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. lie deep in the history of Eta Chapter of Columbia University, New York, NY. In 1926, Eta Chapter consisted of both undergraduate and graduate membership. However, some graduate brothers, were of the belief that a graduate chapter would greatly increase activity of the older brothers. It was felt that their interests, were somewhat different from those of the younger brothers.

On December 23, 1926, a group of brothers from Eta, including its immediate Past President, Attorney Peyton F. Anderson, who was also Eastern Region Vice President, and organized Alpha Psi Chapter with Attorney Myles A. Paige as temporary President; James Fladger as Secretary; and E. P. Roberts, M.D. as Treasurer. The first major decision of the chapter was to send two delegates: Bros. James Fladger and Rev. J.Raymond Henderson to the 19th General Convention, which was held in Richmond, Virginia on December 27, 1926. The decision at that convention concerning the nomenclature of graduate chapters resulted in changing the name of Alpha Psi. Shortly after the conven-tion in 1927, the members of Alpha Psi, met at 355 West 145th Street, New York City - the home of Brother James C. Thomas, Assistant District Attorney - to formulate a new name. It was at this meeting, that Alpha Gamma Lambda was founded.

The spirit of Alpha Phi Alpha was indeed very high that evening, while the brotherhood feasted on an elaborate supper. Brother Paul Robeson, destined to become a legendary and world-renowned figure, sang several musical selections. The tradition of supper or repast following each Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter meeting, has continued to this day. In February 1927, the old charter was returned and a new charter was issued. The following brothers signed the charter: Myles A. Paige, Esq. Peyton F. Anderson, Esq. La-mar Perkins James E. Fladger “Jewel” Eugene Kinckle Jones W.T. Andrews W.P. Hayes Gerold F. Norman Edgar F. Henderson James C. Thomas, Esq. J. Edward Lowrey, M.D. Paul Collins Lucien M. Brown, M.D. James S. Watson, Esq. Thomas B. Dyett, Esq. Louis R. Middleton, D.D.S. G.W. Strickland Clarence Richardson.

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ALpha Gamma Lamda ChapTer

Brotherhood

Bro. John L. BurnettVice President

Bro. Scott B. DavisCorresponding Secretary

Bro. Fred BaptisteDean of Membership Development

Bro. Antonio AlstonHistorian

Bro. Scorpio RogersParlaimentarian

Bro. Bryan BraswellRecording Secretary

Bro. Jorge LaCourtTreasurer

Bro. Victor Perkins Director of Educational Activities

Bro. Clement James Jr. Chaplain

Bro. Stephon DingleAssociate Editor to the Sphinx

Executive Board 2012-13

Bro. Daryl L. ParkerPresident

Robert AlleyneTyrone Anderson

Eric AppleKenneth L Baker

Lawrence BannisterJerry L Barrow

Cleveland E Beckett, JrAlex Berkoh

Brandon BriceJean Celestin, Jr.

Lenton A ClemonsErik Cliette

Mohamed DoumbouyaMill Etienne, MD

Evans FanorOwen D Garrick, MD

James E. GoodeRobert D. Greene

GR GulleyTarr Kasay

Jorge V LaCourtCurtis LawrenceRon Llewellyn

Ronald Madden, PhDConnie V MillerRenard MobleyVincent Morgan

Walter C Parrish, IIISamuel Pierre*Jose PolancoRony Polanco

James Ravenell, Jr.

Michael RogersScorpio Rogers

Rufus “Spy” Sadler, MDVann B. Sapp

R Emmanuel ScottAdrien SebroJ. L. Sessum

Clarence Shelton, Jr.Samuel A Simpson

Gary SutnickEloyd Thomas, Jr.

R Vann GravesWilliam A Woods

General Membership

RASHAD RAYMOND MOORE is currently a Ministerial Intern at The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Minister Moore accepted the call of Christ at a young age at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Dr. V. Simpson Turner

Sr. He was licensed to the Christian Ministry by Dean Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.

Minister Moore holds a B.A in Philosophy from Morehouse College. While a student there, he served as President of the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel Assistants for two consecutive terms, as President of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel Assistants, King Scholars, a Vanguard Leadership Instructor, and a resident advisor.

Minister Moore is studying at New York’s Union Theological Seminary as a recipient of the George Andover Taylor Scholarship. A member of Phi Sigma Tau Philosophical Honor Society, Minister Moore is exploring his academic and ministerial potentials in the areas of Christian Social Ethics and the Philosophy of Education

GuesT speaker Rashad Raymond Moore

March on Washington FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM

On 28 August 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation’s capital. The march was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil rights bill in Congress. During this event, Martin Luther King delivered his memorable ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech.

The 1963 March on Washington had several precedents. In the summer of 1941 A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington, D. C., to draw attention to the exclusion of African Americans from positions in the national defense industry. This job market had proven to be closed to blacks, despite the fact that it was growing to supply materials to the Allies in World War II. The threat of 100,000 marchers in Washington, D.C., pushed Presi-dent Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue Executive Order 8802, which mandated the forma-tion of the Fair Employment Practices Commission to investigate racial discrimination charges against defense firms. In response, Randolph cancelled plans for the march. Civil rights demonstrators did assemble at the Lincoln Memorial in May 1957 for a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom on the third anniversary of Brown v. Board of Educa-tion, and in October 1958, for a Youth March for Integrated Schools to protest the lack of progress since that ruling. King addressed the 1957 demonstration, but due to ill health after being stabbed by Izola Curry, Coretta Scott King delivered his sched-uled remarks at the 1958 event. By 1963, the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, most of the goals of these earlier protests still had not been realized. High levels of black unemployment, work that offered most African Americans only minimal wages and poor job mobility, sys-tematic disenfranchisement of many African Americans, and the persistence of racial segregation in the South prompted discussions about a large scale march for political and economic justice as early as 1962. On behalf of the Negro American Labor Coun-cil (NALC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Randolph wrote a letter on 24 May 1962 to Secretary Stewart Udall of the Depart-ment of the Interior regarding permits for a march culminating at the Lincoln Memo-rial that fall. Plans for the march were stalled when Udall encouraged the groups to consider the Sylvan Theater at the Washington Monument due to the complications of rerouting traffic and the volume of tourists at the Lincoln Memorial.

In March 1963 Randolph telegraphed King that the NALC had begun planning a June march ‘‘for Negro job rights,’’ and asked for King’s immediate response (Randolph, 26 March 1963). In May, at the height of the Birmingham Campaign, King joined Ran-

dolph, James Farmer of CORE, and Charles McDew of SNCC in calling for such an action later that year, declaring, ‘‘Let the black laboring masses speak!’’ (King et al., 7 May 1963) After notifying President Kennedy of their intent, the leaders of the major civil rights organizations set the march date for 28 August. The stated goals of the protest included ‘‘a comprehensive civil rights bill’’ that would do away with segregat-ed public accommodations; ‘‘protection of the right to vote’’; mechanisms for seeking redress of violations of constitutional rights; ‘‘desegregation of all public schools in 1963’’; a massive federal works program ‘‘to train and place unemployed workers’’; and ‘‘a Federal Fair Employment Practices Act barring discrimination in all employ-ment’’ (‘‘Goals of Rights March’’).

As the summer passed, the list of organizations participating in and sponsoring the event expanded to include the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the United Auto Workers (UAW), and many others.

The March on Washington was not universally embraced. It was condemned by the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X who referred to it as ‘‘the Farce on Washington,’’ al-though he attended nonetheless (Malcolm X, 278). The executive board of the Amer-ican Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) declined to support the march, adopting a position of neutrality. Nevertheless, many constituent unions attended in substantial numbers.

The diversity of those in attendance was reflected in the event’s speakers and per-formers. They included singers Marian Anderson, Odetta, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan; Little Rock civil rights veteran Daisy Lee Bates; actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; American Jewish Congress president Rabbi Joachim Prinz; Randolph; UAW president Walter Reuther; march organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP president Roy Wilkins; Na-tional Urban League president Whitney Young and SNCC leader John Lewis.

The day’s high point came when King took the podium toward the end of the event, and moved the Lincoln Memorial audience and live television viewers with what has come to be known as his ‘‘I Have a Dream’’ speech. King commented that ‘‘as tele-vision beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man’s capacity to better himself had a moment of inspira-tion and confidence in the future of the human race,’’ and characterized the march as an ‘‘appropriate climax’’ to the summer’s events (King, ‘‘I Have a Dream,’’ 125; 122).

After the march, King and other civil rights leaders met with President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, where they discussed the need for bipartisan support of civil rights legislation. Though they were passed after Ken-nedy’s death, the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 reflect the demands of the march.

CHAIRMAN Committee on Housing

MEMBER Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and

Asian Legislative Caucus MTA Capital Program Review Board

Task Force on Criminal Justice Reform Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force

High Speed Rail Task Force COMMITTEES

Ways and Means Codes

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January 18, 2014 Honored guests: It is with great esteem that I join you in commemorating the distinguished brothers of Harlem’s own Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. on the occasion of their 2014 “Living the Dream” fundraiser. For over eighty years, the brothers of Alpha Gamma Lambda have had a deep-rooted presence here in Harlem and we are very fortunate indeed, to have such devoted and accomplished gentlemen hard at work preserving the vibrancy of our beloved community. I extend my warmest congratulations to all of this year’s honorees. Thank you for your service, your leadership and all your continued efforts to bring the Dream to life. Sincerely,

Keith L.T. Wright Member of Assembly, 70th A.D.

REPLY TO: Room 943, Legislative Office Building, Albany, New York 12248 • 518-455-4793 • FAX: 518-455-3890

THE ASSEMBLY

STATE OF NEW YORK

ALBANY

KEITH L.T. WRIGHT

Assemblyman 70th District New York County

Congratulations

to Seth Andrew from the DREAM team at

Continue Changing the World!

Congratulations to

Seth Andrew for his outstanding accomplishments!

Brooklyn, New York

Salutes the

Alpha Gamma Lambda Chapter of

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

on the occasion of their

Living the Dream Awards Brunch

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, IncorporatedPI KAPPA OMEGA CHAPTER

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CongratulatesALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INCORPORATED

ALPHA GAMMA LAMBDA CHAPTER on their

50th Anniversary Living The Dream Awards Brunch

and all Honorees

Angela C. Butler, President

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