Exactly one hundred and eleven years ago, the country’s first Black collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity was founded. On that Tuesday, in 1906, the decision by a group of young Black collegiate men at Cornell University was made to transform their organization into a fraternity. In doing so, Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy altered the landscape of America’s colleges and universities. December 4, 2017